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he Yukon News finished on top in six categories at the annual Canadian Community Newspaper Awards this week – double the firstplace finishes of any other newspaper. The paper was named the best all-round newspaper in its circulation range, and also won first-place for best editorial page in its circulation range. Al Pope was named outstanding columnist for the second year in a row. Jesse Winter won for outstanding reporter initiative for “Down and out in Robert Service Campground,” a story and photo essay that resulted from the three weeks he spent living among the Yukon government social assistance clients who are housed at
the campground each summer. Editor John Thompson’s editorial on the re-election of controversial Liard First Nation Chief Daniel Morris, “New meaning to low standards,” was named best local editorial. Publisher and former photo editor Mike Thomas’s shot of a snowboarder in mid-air at the Yukon snowboard championships won for best sports photo. The News also picked up eight second- and third-place awards, for a total of 14 prizes this year. The paper finished second in its circulation class for best front page. Jesse Winter’s images from his three weeks in Robert Service Campground placed second for best photo essay. Mike Thomas’s photo
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Liberal Leader Sandy Silver wants to know why Premier Darrell Pasloski, Minister Scott Kent and Minister Currie Dixon attended a $300-aplate Yukon Party fundraiser during a taxpayer-funded trip to Vancouver in January. The event, billed the Yukon Party Party, included a dinner and cruise through the Burrard Inlet and “an exclusive opportunity to connect with Premier Pasloski and ministers Kent and Dixon.” It took place during the Mineral Roundup conference, where the politicians were busy drumming up mining investment in the territory. “The purpose of the trip to Vancouver was to promote the Yukon as a place to do business, not
to promote the Yukon Party,” said Silver in the legislature Tuesday. “Mr. Speaker, why did the Premier participate in this fundraising event instead of spending time promoting the Yukon?” Pasloski responded that the event took place during personal time, and no expenses were billed to the government as a result. “We are not on 24/7 and there is an opportunity for personal time when we are in Vancouver, and that, Mr. Speaker, is not unheard of at all.” The government has promised that it will make all ministerial travel expense records available to the public. “We will be confidently showing there was no expense billed to the
of a child sledding at Shipyards Park placed second in the feature photo category. The News Christmas special placed second for best holiday edition. Jacqueline Ronson’s story about the Great Dawson Film Find of 1978 took second-place in the historical category. A package of stories about the declining Chinook salmon run by Jacqueline Ronson and Meagan Gillmore placed third in environmental writing. John Thompson’s editorial about the federal Reform Act, “Free our MP: support the Reform Act,” placed third for best national editorial, and the News also placed third for best headline writing. (Eva Holland) government as a result of anything that ministers did on their own personal time.” (Jacqueline Ronson)
Correction In Wednesday’s edition we incorrectly referred to the premier’s chief of staff, Rick Nielsen, and principal secretary, Gordon Steele, as party officials. While both men are political staff, they remain employed by the government. Sorry about the mix-up. As well, last Friday’s story about the Kwanlin Dun First Nation election misidentified the runner-up candidate for chief as Jessica Edzerza. Her name is Jennifer Edzerza. We regret the mistake.
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First Nations, industry plot a new way forward roadwork. It’s even contemplating the possibility of building its own LNG power plant, to t the fifth annual Yukon power the mine and to reduce First Nations Resource the community’s reliance on Conference in Whitediesel. horse this week, the emphasis The KFN is also involved in was on partnerships and comthe planning for the mine, with munication. quarterly meetings to discuss The two-day conference, environmental stewardship, which took place Wednesreclamation plans, and other day and Thursday, featured issues. They’re planning for panel sessions with titles like “seven generations,” Alatini “Working Together to Explore said. “It’s a very collaborative for More,” “Project Certainty approach and it’s working for through Respectful, Honest and us.” Trusting Relations,” and “MinAfter the panel, Chief Alaing: An Economic Opportunity tini spoke to the News about for First Nations.” her approach to dealing with Set against the backdrop of industry. “We didn’t want to ongoing First Nations lawsuits just be reactive, we wanted to against the Yukon government be pro-active,” she said. “I think over mining-related issues, the way we’ve engaged all the the pitch was clear: engaging industry players that have been respectfully with First Nations in our area, we’ve developed recan be a net good for the inally good working relationships Ian Stewart/Yukon News dustry, and mining can also be with them.” Kluane First Nation Chief Math’ieya Alatini says she’s found the ingredients for a healthier a boon for those First Nations She isn’t afraid to say no to relationship between Yukon First Nations and the mining industry. that embrace it. industry when necessary, she The final session of the received an unspecified number said. “We’re able to do that in a By working closely with First would focus on wealth generaconference, “Advancing Projrespectful manner that doesn’t of shares alongside the usual Nations and local communities tion through tools like limited ects and Partnerships,” featured from the outset, she said, “you have to be in the media and education and employment partnerships and investments, Chief Math’ieya Alatini of the doesn’t have to be in the courts. incentives. Wellgreen was just the latter would provide supimprove the likelihood of sucKluane First Nation as well as We’re able to sit down and say the third mining project in the port to local businesses and cessful and timely permitting. representatives from Kaminak ‘This is not going to work for North to offer shares to a First help to create support services You have a true partnership Gold Corp. and Wellgreen Plati- going into the construction of us.’” Nation – two others, Brewery for industry. num. Her advice for First Nations Creek and the N.W.T.’s NechaThe most notable project your project.” Allison Rippin Armstrong, lacho rare earths project, signed looking to work directly with on KFN land right now is Chief Alatini spoke next, director of lands and environsimilar agreements in July 2012. the mining industry: “Know explaining that her drive to en- Wellgreen Platinum, which is what your parameters are. ment for Kaminak, spoke from gage actively with the industry Chief Alatini has ambitious touted as one of the world’s Know what you definitely don’t an industry perspective about largest undeveloped deposits of plans for her First Nation’s was a result of her election in want. Know your limits. And the hows and whys of engaging 2010, in the midst of an enorinvolvement in the potential platinum and its related group then get informed about the with First Nations. She argued mine. “If the mine site goes mous staking rush. The activity, of metals. Located just off the industry so that you’re making that exploration companies ahead, we want to be ready she said, was overwhelming – so Alaska Highway north of Burinformed decisions.” should not just inform First for it,” she told the conference wash Landing, the Wellgreen the KFN responded by gathAs for the industry, she says Nations about their projects deposit was mined briefly in the attendees. The KFN wants ering industry and First Nathat reaching out to local First and plans, but also listen and its citizens to get the training 1970s. If it’s revived as a worktions experts and sitting down ask questions – about wildlife ing mine it has the potential to necessary not just for unskilled Nations is the first step. “Call, to analyze the First Nation’s movements, culturally signifibe the third-largest producer of positions – “we want geologists, number one. Create awareness capacity to provide services to about your project and your cant sites, and other sensitive engineers,” she said. “We want industry, as well as its needs and platinum in North America. areas that can derail a project. to see highly skilled individuals intent.” The second step? “Be The project is noteworthy how industry might be able to She suggested that open with the ability to establish long prepared to answer some quesnot only because it’s a deposit help meet them. tions but also to ask questions. communication, environmental careers.” of rare and in-demand platiThe KFN revived its thenAre there concerns?” monitoring, cultural signifiThe First Nation is looking num, but because when Chief defunct Kluane Development “Those are the ingredients,” cance studies and even reclama- Corporation and also created a Alatini signed an impact benefit into ways to provide an array she said, for a healthier relaof services to the mine site, agreement with then-owner tion studies should begin before second institution, the Kluane tionship between Yukon First from haulage and camp serProphecy Platinum in August Community Development the project begins to have any Nations and industry. vices to employee housing and Corporation – while the former 2012, the Kluane First Nation impact on the land – not after. 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he Yukon government is facing yet another First Nation lawsuit. The territory must consult the Kaska Dena Council before recording mineral claims and allowing exploration activities on its traditional territory, according to a statement of claim filed in Yukon Supreme Court Wednesday. The Kaska Dena Council is based in Lower Post, B.C., and represents five Kaska First Nations, including the Liard First Nation and the Ross River Dena Council. Kaska Dena traditional territory covers 240,000 square kilo-
metres in Yukon, B.C. and N.W.T. In 2012 the Yukon Court of Appeal found that the Yukon government must consult with the Ross River Dena Council before mining claims are recorded in its traditional territory and before low-level exploration work occurs on those lands. Currently there is a staking ban on the northern portions of Kaska territory – around Ross River – while the government consults with the Ross River Dena Council. That ban is set to expire April 30, and so far there is no word on how negotiations are going. The court also ruled that the First Nation must be consulted before any Class 1 exploration activities can go ahead in the Ross River area. Class 1 is the low-
est level of exploration, and can include activities such as clearing trees, building trails, digging up rock and the use of explosives. But those protections only exist in northern portions of Kaska Dena territory, because the 2012 court decision applied specifically to the Ross River Dena Council. While there is likely no legal reason that the decision would not apply to other First Nations – particular those without a final land claims agreement – the government has told others they must wait their turn. The Kaska Dena Council wrote Premier Darrell Pasloski in August and again in September asking to be consulted on proposed changes to the Class 1 exploration
regime. “If your government continues to refuse to honour its duty to consult with the Kaska Dena Council, we intend to turn to the Yukon Supreme Court to vindicate our rights. However, we very much hope that it does not come to that,” wrote council chair George Miller in both letters. In January Kaska First Nations and the White River First Nations issued a joint news release asking for the Ross River decision to be applied to all Kaska and White River territory in the Yukon. The Taku River Tlingit First Nation, based in Atlin, B.C., sued the Yukon government in February, asking for the concessions from the Ross River case to be extended to Yukon portions of its
territory. That lawsuit also called on the territorial government to cancel plans to build a campground on Atlin Lake until the First Nation had been consulted adequately. The Yukon government’s new plan for the Peel watershed is also before Yukon Supreme Court. The Tr’ondek Hwech’in and the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun have sued over that plan, which sees 71 per cent of the watershed open for new mineral staking. Premier Darrell Pasloski declined to comment on this article and the Kaska Dena Council did not respond to a request for comment by press time. Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com
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wo years ago, five people died in Porter Creek. They had been feeling sick, but they didn’t realize a deadly gas was slowly filling their home. The Rusk family – Bradley, Valerie, Gabe and Rebekah – and their family friend Donald McNamee died of carbon monoxide poisoning. In the weeks and months that followed, carbon monoxide detectors flew off store shelves around the territory. In 2013, an inquest jury listened to details of what happened and made nine recommendations on how to prevent similar deaths in the future. Now, the government is still working on the regulations that could put some of those recommendations into practice. But it remains unclear exactly what those regulations will look like. Community Services Minister Brad Cathers says the key thing the government has done when it comes to carbon monoxide safety is education. Multiple recommendations from the jury centred on the need for awareness campaigns. “I think one of the best things government can do in this area, and in many others, is help people understand how they can best take steps to provide for their own safety,” he said last week. Advertising campaigns began a year after the deaths, including some by the government and others by the fire marshall’s office. ur
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This month, a new website was launched. The site, www.seriouslysimple.ca, lays out the potential dangers of carbon monoxide and how to spot hazards. New oil-fired appliance legislation was passed last May. But the accompanying regulations aren’t ready for public viewing just yet, Cathers said. Regulations are in the final stages of being drafted right now. They will be put out for public comment later this year and come into full effect by the fall, he said. Until the information is public, Cathers said he couldn’t discuss details. “It would be premature to say exactly what will be in the regulations because they are draft regulations. Once the Department of Community Services have done their work, those will be presented by me to cabinet.” He did say there would be specific requirements that require landlords to exercise a higher duty of care. The Rusk family lived in a rented home. “Additionally, you will see both through the act, and when the regulations are in place, specific provisions stipulating when a certified oil-fired mechanic would be required to apply for a permit before any installation or modifications.” Cathers wouldn’t say if recommendations from the jury for such things as maintenance inspection stickers, improved public files on heating systems, and the permitting process are being considered. Updated legislation was recommended in reports both before and after the Porter Creek tragedy. The inquest jury then recommended that those report recommendations be implemented. The new laws require that all installation and modification of furnaces be done by a certified oilburner mechanic. However, no accreditation is required to perform maintenance on existing furnaces, despite the fact that the government’s own working group called for that to be included. Cathers says the government is strongly encouraging people to have their systems looked at by a qualified person, but believes it’s unrealistic to legally mandate it. “One of the things that they
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he government of Canada has proposed changes to Yukon’s environmental assessment regime, but won’t tell the public what they are. The federal government has drafted amendments to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act. It has shared the draft with the Yukon government and Yukon First Nations, but won’t release it to the public until it is tabled in Parliament. The News asked Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada to share details of the proposed changes. The changes would “allow board members to continue to act after the expiry or termination of their appointment term; clarify the role of the Yukon Land Use Planning Council; clarify the relationship with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA); and provide for the scoping of the activities of third party resource users in forest resource management planning initiatives when government is the proponent,” according to an emailed statement from the department. “The amendments would introduce timelines for the assessment of projects, permit cost recovery for the Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Board, and provide further clarity for regional environmental studies already permitted under the act.”
He would like to see mines getting approved in two years or less. And for the most part, the government and industry are on the same page, he said. But an opportunity was missed to have a more full conversation, not only between industry and government but also between industry and First Nations, said Brewer. “Because of the shortness of the timeframe there’s just really no opportunity to have that dialogue. So that’s too bad. That’s unfortunate.” Liberal Leader Sandy Silver has also criticized the Yukon government for its lack of transparency on the issue. “What consultation did the minister do before he took off to go to Ottawa to get his marching orders?” asked Silver. “You need to replace this talk with action that’s being done in broad daylight, and not behind closed doors.” Ian Stewart/Yukon News The Council of Yukon Heavy equipment in operation at Capstone’s Minto mine operations near Pelly Crossing. First Nations did not Premier Darrell PasloThe Yukon government “We would like to fully dis- respond to multiple ski said his government will funded the Yukon Mineral Ad- cuss any of our concerns with requests for comment. A spokesperson for the Yuprovide feedback to Canada visory Board to provide advice relation to the YESAA changes kon Environmental and Socioon the draft amendments, but about the changes it would like prior to those changes hapeconomic Assessment Board was similarly vague on what to see, said Pasloski. pening,” said Brewer. changes will be sought. But that advice has not been The Yukon government only said the board would decline comment because the matter is “There are some common made public, either. started to engage the minbetween the federal, territorial themes from our perspecKevin Brewer, an execuing industry in recent weeks, and First Nation governments. tive,” he said in an interview tive with several junior minBrewer said in an interview Yukon MP Ryan Leef also this week. “We’ve talked about ing companies in the Yukon, this week. declined to comment. His thresholds for assessments, asked the premier at a Yukon “When you’re coming in at chief of staff said that Leef we’ve talked about adequacy, Chamber of Commerce event the last hour, it’s challenging,” has conducted consultations we’ve talked about timelines, last week to make that report he said. “We might be too late around the issue, but has not we’ve talked about consistency public and engage the mining in the game already.” seen the draft amendments. in terms of the district offices industry in talks about regulaThe industry’s biggest conContact Jacqueline Ronson at as well.” jronson@yukon-news.com tory changes. cern is timelines, said Brewer.
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atson Lake has no resident full-time doctors. In response, Health Minister Doug Graham is creating a committee to look into recruiting physicians to the community southeast of Whitehorse. For the last year, Watson Lake has used 15 locum – or temporary – doctors to meet the needs of the community. “It’s a huge concern for us because we believe at any time the best solution is to have resident doctors,” Graham said in an interview. “Especially when we have a medical facility like we do in Watson Lake that needs to be staffed 24 hours a day. It’s a huge problem.” Two local doctors, Dr. Said Secerbegovic and his daughter Dr. Tanis Secerbegovic, who both worked out of the Parhellion Clinic, were until recently serving the community full-time. Watson Lake also has a recently completed hospital with its own clinic and 24-hour emergency services. After working in the community for decades, the elder Secerbegovic placed himself on the locum list and is now working part time. His current contract runs out at the end of the year. Dr. Tanis Secerbegovic recently
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case-load.” Durocher said he doesn’t want to criticize the quality of doctors coming to Watson Lake. “Medical is medical, but there’s also knowing the person and the community as well, root causes of why maybe certain things are the way they are. (Secerbegovic) has a beautiful understanding of that because after 40 years here he knows everybody.” The committee will include representation from commuIan Stewart/Yukon News nity members, the town, the Yukon Health Minister Doug Graham at a press conference with Medical Association and the health Yukon Hospital Corporation CEO Jason Bilsky last year. department, said Graham. Graham has agreed to launch a committee to look into The government’s recruitment recruiting more doctors to Watson Lake. officer, who is in charge of attracting doctors to the territory, is no resident doctors. Furthermore, it responsible for promoting the tergave birth and also put herself on also leaves in question the future of the locum list. ritory overall and not to fill specific That means no full-time doctors clinical services for the community.” vacancies in privately-owned clinics, In an interview with the News are living in the community. Graham said. The News could not reach either this week, Durocher said not having “What we’re attempting to do is a consistent doctor has been difficult recruit doctors to the territory, to of the doctors in time for today’s for residents. story. recruit doctors to Watson Lake, but “It’s making the community reWatson Lake Mayor Richard not to a specific clinic.” ally nervous that you have a locum Durocher laid out his community’s Graham said the hospital needs at come in, handle your file and then concerns in a letter to the health least three resident doctors, “because you never see them again,” he said. minister earlier this month and that hospital needs 24 hours a day, The mayor described what it is called for such a committee to be seven days a week coverage, and you formed. He wrote that the commu- like at the clinic when the elder Dr. simply can’t do that with two people. nity has “been advised that Dr. Tanis Secerbegovic is working. It would be extremely difficult.” “If you went to Parhellion on a Secerbegovic will not be returning Graham said the committee day that Said’s in town, it’s wall-toafter maternity leave if there is not should be up and running in “a very another resident physician working wall in there. My understanding is short period of time, I hope.” that on a lot of nights he works until in the community. Contact Ashley Joannou at “This will leave Watson Lake with 10 at night just to catch up on the ashleyj@yukon-news.com
Faro gets new RCMP detachment
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he territory’s oldest RCMP detachment is being replaced. The government announced this week it will be rebuilding the RCMP’s hub in Faro. RCMP Insp. Al Lucier says Faro was chosen for a new building after an assessment of police detachment buildings in the territory. The current building was built in 1971. It is the oldest building by nine years. The next oldest detachment is in Carcross. Lucier said the department looked at all three-person detachments in the territory. “Faro is an old building. Number one, it is modular construction, we don’t have modular
construction buildings in Yukon anymore,” he said. “It was built back when a member of the detachment actually lived in the detachment, so there’s living quarters that were attached to the building and have since been renovated into office space. We had no other building like that in the Yukon.” The detachment also has no access for people with disabilities, something that is required by the federal government for RCMP stations. “There were so many factors that pointed to Faro.” The Yukon government’s 2014-15 capital budget includes $318,000 for the planning and design of the new building. The government has also earmarked $3.575 million for next
year’s construction. Yukon is providing 70 per cent of the capital money for construction and the eventual operation and maintenance costs. The federal government will provide the remaining 30 per cent in line with the Territorial Police Services Agreement. That puts the total cost of the building at $5.56 million. The government says it will eventually adapt the new detachment design for other communities. The current detachment measures about 200 square metres. Early estimates peg the new building at about 350 square metres. The RCMP sometimes will consider renovation options or lease or rental options when looking for new space. But in this case
that’s not possible, Lucier said. “With just about all the communities in the North, we’re not in a position where we can go out and find either commercial or Government of Canada lease space where we can create a detachment that has a secure cell component, an area for exhibits and certain security requirements that are needs of a policing office.” A location for the new detachment will be decided as part of the planning process, Lucier said. “Ideally we will build the new detachment as close to the old one as possible. Whether we can co-locate it on the site or an adjacent site is yet to be determined by the planning and design.” The fate of the old building hasn’t been decided yet. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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ukoners like to think of themselves as a hardy, self-reliant lot. This collective self-image is at odds with the reality that our territorial government is propped up with massive subsidies from Ottawa. This year total transfers from the feds are expected to top $1 billion. That’s nearly $30,000 for every resident of the territory. By comparison, the territory expects to raise a mere $162 million through its own taxes and other levies. That’s just 13 per cent of the government’s total revenues. Our Yukon Party government is usually of the habit of celebrating how much federal cash is raining upon the territory, and of suggesting that its cozy ties with its federal counterparts help make it all happen. But, to some conservative-minded residents, this dependence on federal hand-outs is a sign that the Yukon has lost its way. Presumably as a sop to this crowd, Pasloski last week told a business audience that he aimed to see the territory become a net contributor to Canada. It’s a nice idea. While we’re at it, it would be swell to live in a territory powered by endless supplies of clean power thanks to cold nuclear fusion, where we commute to work either in flying cars or on hoverboards and everyone has a pet unicorn in their backyards. But nobody would expect such flights of fancy to happen anytime soon. After all, extravagant claims should be buttressed with credible details to be believed. Such specificity is completely lacking with Pasloski’s pie-in-the-sky dreams of financial independence for the territory. The Yukon Party has always put much faith in mining. But even when a mining boom seemed much more likely to materialize back in the autumn of 2011, the wonks with the Conference Board of Canada didn’t expect new mines to make the territory any less dependent on Ottawa. That’s because as the territory’s population grows, so do federal transfers. Of course, many of the mine projects that the conference board anticipated to surge forward are in-
stead now stuck in the mud, as metal prices slide and investors fail to buy into already-permitted properties. If you’d like further reasons to doubt the premier’s claims, consider what he touts as a shining example of fiscal discipline: the government’s badly botched plans to rebuild F.H. Collins Secondary School. Pasloski maintains the territory saved $17 million in its handling of plans to rebuild the aging high school. He reaches that figure by comparing the construction cost of the ostentatious monument his government initially planned to build – all pricey glass walls, curving walls and long roof spans – against the cost of the revised plan, which doesn’t look like much more than a glorified chain of portables. Students were supposed to occupy the new building last fall. Instead, thanks to the government having to go back to the drawing board and redesign the school, that opening has been delayed by two years, to the autumn of 2015. Local contractors ended up wasting their resources to bid on the illfated project. And many later found themselves locked out of the bids for the new work, which required experience on projects in Alberta. This all represents missed opportunities for Yukon workers. And the territory itself frittered away at least $5 million on generating its unused school plans. That’s not including all the man-hours consumed by bureaucrats who worked on the file. Needless to say, had these funds not been wasted, they could have actually been put to some good. How does the premier characterize this outcome? Why, in his budget speech he described it as “one of the best examples of fiscal prudence” his government can muster. What a frightening thought. Perhaps that’s how we’ll become financially independent, then. We need only earmark $1 billion in poorly conceived projects, then later scrap those plans at an expense of, say, a few hundred million. Presto change-o, by the premier’s own reasoning, we’ve just saved a billion bucks. (JT) Publisher
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LETTERS Let’s register lobbyists On Tuesday I attended the 2014 spring sitting of the first session of the 33rd Yukon Legislative Assembly. The thing that struck me the most was the lack of transparency shown on behalf of this government. The premier sees no reason to register lobbyists. I for one would like to see lobbyists registered. I have to register my dog with the City of Whitehorse. I fail to see the problem with registering lobbyists. I am not so worried about the Salvation Army or others the government’s leader brought up as examples of hardship if they had to register. What I am worried about are those lobbyists that can afford $300 cruises around English Bay, getting the ear of government to no doubt express their desire for low Reporters
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royalties and taxes on the natural resources they exploit. The premier ridiculed the leader of the Opposition suggesting she would ruin the territory with high royalties on natural resources mined in the Yukon. Perhaps a quick comparison is in order on which path would be better for the citizens of the Yukon to follow, high or low royalties. The province of Alberta and Great Britain have followed the path of low royalties, whereas Norway followed the path of high royalties and government intervention. Currently Norway
has banked over $800 billion of revenue generated from its oil fields in the North Sea, while Great Britain frittered away this resource and is mired in a $2 trillion debt. Alberta hasn’t added anything to its heritage fund for years and is mired in debt as well. It is time the premier acted in the best interests of the citizens of the Yukon, instead of special interests that have the premier’s ear for the night on a yacht. Neil Rollinson Whitehorse
Quote of the Day “We’re able to do that in a respectful manner that doesn’t have to be in the media and doesn’t have to be in the courts. We’re able to sit down and say ‘This is not going to work for us.’” Chief Math’ieya Alatini of the Kluane First Nation, on saying no to industry. Page 3
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All eyes on Capstone’s Minto mine wiring to big industrial applications. Its outlook is tightly tied to global economic growth, espeby Keith cially the big rapidly developing Halliday economies from Brazil to China. Economic growth in China has wobbled recently but most forecasters still predict growth of over seven per cent, which would be considered a boom in any rich country. Plus the outlook remains positive for other major rapidly into, one of the Yukon’s developing economies like Brazil, South Africa, India and Indonesia. few operating mines, This is reflected in copper lost money in 2013 acprices. The metal is down from cording to annual financial inforits peak of around US$10,000 mation released by its parent Capper tonne in 2011, hitting threestone in February. Minto employs year lows in London of around lots of Yukoners and contributes US$6,500 per tonne. Markets millions of tax and royalty dollars have been spooked by reports of to both the Selkirk First Nation sputtering demand in China and and the Yukon government. Any worries about large overhangs threat to its continued operations of copper owned by increasingly would be worrisome. nervous copper speculators. The So how worried do we need to concern is that these speculators be? may start dumping the metal to Mining is famously a boomcut their losses. and-bust industry. You need However, copper prices remain to make big money during the high by long-term standards. The booms, and be lean and productEconomist published a chart of ive when the busts come along. inflation-adjusted copper prices. Minto’s main product is copIt showed that, even with the per, and we’re probably somerecent slump, copper prices are where in the middle between still double or triple where they copper’s boom and bust. Copper were in the late 1990s and early is a key industrial and consumer 2000s when copper prices were metal used in everything from as low as US$2,000 per tonne consumer electronics to home (adjusted for inflation). Indeed,
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will help cut the cost per pound of copper produced. It’s also worth noting that the Minto mine was still cash-positive in 2013. Its cash cost per pound was US$1.93 compared to average revenue of $3.30 per pound. The 2013 loss included non-cash items like the depletion and amortization cost mentioned above. This includes things like the depreciation on mining equipment, where the cost of the equipment is spread over however many years the asset is expected to last. If a mine is already built and equipped, it makes sense to keep it running as long as it is cashpositive. However, in the longrun if the mine is not profitable enough to cover its full costs then investors will ask hard questions about investing more capital in replacing equipment or expanding it. The cash-positive performance of Minto also means that management has time to improve efficiency and develop those additional deposits nearby to improve the economics. So Yukoners probably don’t need to get too worried about Minto just yet. The stock market also seems relatively unconcerned. Capstone’s share price was around $2.75 earlier this week, in the $2-3 range it has been trading in since early 2012.
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Don’t disenfranchise Yukon voters Open letter to MP Ryan Leef: As a citizen, a voter and a constituent, I was extremely disappointed to read your defense of the Fair Elections Act in last Wednesday’s paper. While I have neither the pages nor the patience to respond to all of this misleading spin in detail, your promise that this bill will “crack down on voter fraud” deserves greater scrutiny. This is because the reforms being proposed to address this “threat” – eliminating Voter Information Cards (VICs) and vouching at the polls – will profoundly impact Yukon voters. VICs were mailed to almost 24 million eligible voters in the 2011 federal election, providing proof of address – a voting requirement – for Canadians who might not have access to other voting ID with this information. According to Elections Canada, VICs were used extensively in that election by First Nations voters on aboriginal reserves (36 per cent), students on university campuses (62 per cent) and seniors in long-term care facilitates (73 per cent) – all demographic groups that face significant identification-related barriers to electoral participation. As for vouching, over 120,000 Canadians relied on a neighbour to confirm their identity at the polls last federal election. For voters, the vouching process is typically a frus-
until the surge in copper prices that began around 2005, the last time the metal spent prolonged periods above US$6,000 per tonne in today’s money was in the mid-1970s. So, supposing that we are somewhere in between copper’s boom and bust, what does it mean if a mine lost money in 2013? You can’t just look at Capstone’s corporate financials, since they own a few other copper mines around the world. However, Capstone released some interesting Minto-specific numbers for investors. It turns out that Minto generated $99 million in revenue in 2013, with production costs of $75 million, royalties of $2 million and “depletion and amortization” of $44 million. That produced a net loss for Minto of $22 million, compared to a profit of $20 million the year before. Company officials told Whitehorse media that lower copper prices were a major culprit in the reversal of fortunes. The mine laid off some workers recently, but is continuing to process ore from its stockpile and has applied for permits to expand operations into its nearby Minto North property. The hope is that improved operational efficiency
trating experience born from extraordinary circumstances; most don’t expect to use the process until they arrive at a polling station and realize that they have no other alternative. For electoral staff, it is one of the most complicated voting procedures, and often results in administrative errors or “irregularities” in documenting the vouching process. But despite the inconvenience and administrative complexity of vouching, more often than not it successfully enables an “honest vote” to be cast that would have otherwise been discounted. The central argument made by the government for eliminating VICs and vouching is that they are especially vulnerable to voter fraud. In my view, if voter fraud were occurring frequently enough to overshadow the enhanced electoral participation that these identification methods provide, there would be serious grounds to question their use in future elections. But the government must prove, with evidence and reasonable argument, that voter fraud is a real and serious problem. So far, its efforts have been utterly unconvincing. For example, the government’s claim that “inaccuracies” make VICs susceptible to voter fraud are not credible: according to Elections Canada, VICs have an information accuracy rate of 90 per cent, and are
more likely than a driver’s license to list a correct address. Similarly, the government’s efforts to paint vouching irregularities with brushstrokes of voter fraud is misleading, and ignores a recent Supreme Court ruling (Opitz v. Wrzesnewskyj, 2012) affirming that irregularities alone are no proof of such conduct. Instead of addressing these (and many other) criticisms directly, your letter simply reiterated the government’s partisan messaging, poorlyreasoned arguments and exaggerated evidence. The risk of voter fraud suggested by this rhetoric is not backed by enough evidence to justify the elimination of voter identification that actively enables greater electoral participation. Supporting this bill, and the elimination of VICs and vouching, will serve only to disenfranchise Yukon voters. Stephen Roddick Whitehorse
Nefarious neocons The constant engineering towards a different society by loosening and dismantling environmental protection and muzzling science, among other things, are definitely trademarks of the Stephen Harper “neoconservatives.”
That seems to be the case as well for the Yukon Party’s politics. The industry-leading approach by the select committee regarding the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing makes it clear again how interested they are to protect our water, and how serious they are to include the public in any decision making. The Yukon government’s disregard for the environment and the Peel watershed commission’s recommended plan is also well documented. In rejecting the commission’s regional plan for the Peel watershed, they clearly prove again that they don’t care about the democratic process and that they cannot be trusted with the responsibility to protect the quality of Yukon’s natural environment and the rights of First Nations. Oh, don’t get me wrong, they know there are still some “nasty” difficulties to overcome yet, but they are well on their way to pave the road for corporatist dictatorship and total exploitation of our natural resources, mainly for exports, more speculation and greed. It is not about Canadian energy security, or to invest in renewable energy after all. This approach can only lead to disaster for us as Canadians and our life-supporting ecosystems that we depend on. Lately, they have also used the words “fiscal responsibility” quite
However, if copper prices go down to US$6,000 per tonne or lower and stay there the situation will be worth watching closely. The same goes if there are delays getting regulatory approval for the Minto North and other new deposits the mine wants to develop. Minto announced in January that its Phase V/VI regulatory application for Minto North was delayed and that this would result in “the shift of the most significant production from Minto North by one year from 2015 to 2016.” Any further delays, either on the part of the company or of regulators reviewing its applications, will be worrisome. In the meantime, the company says it will face higher cash costs in 2014 as it waits for the new deposits to come on stream. All of this underlines the complexity of managing a modern mine. There are so many moving parts such as copper prices, geology, engineering, operational cost control and our regulatory processes. Yukoners will be watching how Minto’s bosses steer through them with interest. Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. You can follow him on Channel 9’s Yukonomist show or Twitter @hallidaykeith
often, which on its own is not a bad thing at all, but I wonder what they actually mean by that. Is it that we have to tighten our belts while multinational corporations exploit our country to feed giants like China? Is it that our taxes can only go up, while the corporate sector pays next to nothing in taxes and royalties and hide their money in offshore accounts, while our pension and health-care funds get depleted? Do they act like true Canadians – do they protect Canada’s people, environment and resources – or are they first puppets for the corporate world? On the territorial and federal level their moves can be clearly identified. When all the land and resources are allocated to big corporations and all trade barriers are removed, with dictated obligations for Canada to deliver, we have nothing left to bargain with and real democracy cannot function any more. After all point, we will have greatly diminished our resources, that we might need for our own future requirements. The only freedom still around will be the corporate “freedom” to dictate policy and prices for the rest of us. It seems they are already halfway there, and I for one hope that they never reach their goal. We can do our next part at the polls to prevent this scenario from happening. Reiner Rembe Watson Lake
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he ultimate fate of the Ross River footbridge is still unclear. The 70-year-old structure spanning the Pelly River had been slated for demolition until this week, when the government said it would instead stabilize the bridge so it is no longer at risk of collapse. The community had rallied in support of the bridge, and some members were camped out on the ice around the clock in an effort to save it. Pasloski’s top political staff met with Ross River Dena Council Chief Brian Ladue and councillors last week to talk about the issue. MLA Kevin Barr, Opposition critic for Community Services, asked the government Wednesday to commit not only to stabilizing but also to restoring the structure. “It is unfortunate that some of the residents of Ross River had to block access to the bridge for nearly two weeks to prevent it from being destroyed and to be heard from their government,” said Barr. Pasloski said that the latest move on the bridge is “yet another example of this public government working together
with Yukon First Nations to get things done.” “When the people have to blockade a bridge in order for the government to work with them, it is not working with the people, it’s catching up on long overdue action by this Yukon territorial government,” said Barr. Pasloski did not commit to anything beyond the stabilization of the bridge, except to say that the government will look at the options. (Jacqueline Ronson)
said the investigation found that the case didn’t meet the criteria for criminal charges. The driver, a 56-year-old Whitehorse man, is facing charges under the Motor Vehicle Act. He has been charged with failing to yield to a pedestrian crossing at a crosswalk and driving without due care and attention. William Marvin Lagimodiere was hit by an SUV on Feb. 26 Jesse Winter/Yukon News while crossing Fourth Avenue Premier Darrell Pasloski gave between Ray Street and Second his budget speech this week. Avenue. The 69-year-old died later that My mother would approve. I day. Premier’s shoes am wearing these shoes today to From very early on in the inhad special significance honour her memory,” the premier vestigation, police said the driver said in a statement. was co-operative. Officers said he The premier’s shoes for this year’s Traditionally Canadian finance was sober at the time of the crash. budget had been worn once ministers – a portfolio Pasloski The name of the driver cannot before. holds along with his top job – be released until he makes his This year’s black leather pair pick out shoes specifically in first appearance in court. That was purchased by Darrell Pasloski honour of a new budget. is scheduled to happen April 29. Last year’s budget saw the for his mother’s memorial service. (Ashley Joannou) premier wearing leather mukluks. She passed away in early January (Ashley Joannou) after a long illness. Council boosts budget “My mother was fiscally conservative and believed in never Traffic charges laid in for new fire truck buying anything until you can afpedestrian’s death ford it. While the 2014-15 budget Whitehorse city council has provides for record spending, The police are not laying criminal agreed to increase the budget for Yukon is in a good fiscal posia new rescue pumper truck. charges in the death of a pedestion with a healthy surplus, so trian killed last month. The purchase was originally we can afford these expenditures. Yukon RCMP Cpl. Jay Waldner budgeted in 2012 at $675,000 –
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City moves to write-off property tax deadbeats A handful of “uncollectable” debts owed to the city moved closer to being written off on Monday night. Seven people or organizations owe the City of Whitehorse a total of roughly $3,000, but a collections agency has been unable to find them. A special bylaw intended to wipe out the accounts passed first and second reading at a city council meeting, despite earlier questions from councillors about the city’s debt collection protocol. It will be up for a third and final reading on April 7. The largest amount on the list is $1,049.33 in unpaid property taxes, owed by Tyler Benson. The next-highest is $682.11, owed by the Knights of Columbus for unpaid rental fees on city facilities. The News was unable to reach the organization for comment. (Eva Holland)
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Conservative MP behind coming bill to allow assisted suicide Canadian Press OTTAWA former Conservative cabinet minister left paralyzed from the neck down by a 1996 car crash plans to introduce two private member’s bills that would allow assisted suicide in some circumstances. Steven Fletcher, a Manitoba MP who was dropped from the federal cabinet last summer, is going against government policy with his legislation. One of Fletcher’s two bills would, if passed, allow doctors to help people end their lives under certain restricted circumstances. The second would set up a commission to monitor the system. “There will be a set of statutory requirements that must be met before the act of physician-assisted death can happen,” Fletcher said Wednesday before a Conservative caucus meeting. “The commission will be taking a very close look at each case as it occurs and provide recommendations over time on how to best improve the process.” He wouldn’t go into specific details, saying that will have to wait until after the bills are introduced in the House of Commons on Thursday. The legislation is likely to face a tough time in the Commons, which last looked at the issue in 2010 and voted against it by a wide margin. Justice Minister Peter MacKay said he has no interest in starting that debate again. “I think it’s a very, very personal issue, a very contentious issue, one that Parliament examined in the not-too-distant past and spoke quite clearly, pronounced itself on it, so I’m not in any hurry to reopen that issue,” he said. Saskatchewan Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott said he will vote against Fletcher’s bills. “I think there’s great palliative care and other things that we can do instead,” he said. Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said the concept is at odds with her
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Conservative MP Steven Fletcher plans to introduce new right-to-die legislation in the House of Commons.
Roman Catholic faith. “I take very seriously the issues associated with this and, as a result, I personally am not in favour of assisted suicide.” NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said the government has a duty to look at controversial issues. “The government has to modernize our approach, whether that means working with the provinces and territories on the health aspects of this or modernizing the Criminal Code,” he said. “Mr. Fletcher is taking a step in the right direction.” Fletcher said the ensuing debate is what matters, because the question is currently being argued in the courts, rather than in Parliament, where he said it belongs. “I believe that these issues should be decided in Parliament,” he said. “I think it’s very important that we have a debate.” The Supreme Court of Canada, which in 1993 narrowly ruled against Sue Rodriguez in her much-debated bid for assisted suicide, has agreed to hear another British Columbia right-to-die case this spring. Rodriguez, who had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, took her own life in 1994 with the help of an anonymous doctor. “When I reflect back on the Sue Rodriguez case, I really felt that she should have been able to legally
receive what was ultimately done,” Fletcher said. He also said polls suggest Canadians in general support the idea. A Quebec bill on assisted suicide died in the national assembly when the provincial election was called. Fletcher broke his neck in 1996 when his car hit a moose. He still requires 24-hour attendant care. He recalls lying helpless in a hospital bed, on a ventilator, in danger of drowning in his own phlegm. But he says the stringent requirements in his bill likely wouldn’t have let him choose to die. “It would have been very difficult for me to have taken that option. There are safeguards.” He said his bill is aimed at those who have nothing to look forward to but pain. “This is designed to help people who are in pain and suffering and most likely lived most of their lives.” Groups representing disabled persons have argued strongly against right-to-die legislation, saying it could lead to abuses against some handicapped people. Fletcher said he disagrees. “I’m obviously part of that group,” he said. “The disabled community is not monolithic in its thinking. “The standards are very high. They will argue about the slippery slope. I don’t buy into that.”
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Resolute plane crash result of human, technical mistakes: transportation board Bob Weber Canadian Press
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lair, I don’t like this.” Those were the last words First Air co-pilot David Hare spoke to pilot Blair Rutherford. Five seconds later, both were dead, along with 10 others on the airplane A Transportation Safety Board report into the crash detailed Tuesday how it took just 2 1/2 minutes for a combination of human and technical mistakes to turn a passenger and supply flight to a remote Arctic community from routine to calamitous. The investigation into the crash of First Air Flight 6560 blames an undetected autopilot change, a faulty compass reading and disagreement between the two pilots about whether to abort the landing. “This accident was the product of a complex series of events, all of them lining up together,” lead investigator Brian MacDonald said Tuesday as the report was released. “But what ultimately tied all these things together was that as the flight progressed each pilot developed a different understanding of the situation and they were unable to reconcile that difference.” The chartered plane was on a regular run to Resolute from Yellowknife on Aug. 20, 2011. There were scientists on the plane, along with staff heading back to work at a local inn and the inn owner’s two young granddaughters. The crash killed all four crew members and eight passengers. Three passengers miraculously survived. In cool, technical language, the board’s report provides a second-bysecond breakdown of what probably happened in the cockpit as the pilots crashed the Boeing 737 into a hillside a kilometre from the runway.
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The Transportation Safety Board’s lead investigator, Brian MacDonald, points to a simulation showing the final minutes of First Air flight 6560 during a news conference on Tuesday in Ottawa.
Problems began because on-board compasses were incorrectly adjusted by 17 degrees. That error was compounded when the captain turned into the final approach and unwittingly changed the operational mode of the plane’s autopilot. Busy with the landing checklist, in weather obscured by cloud, mist and light rain, neither
he nor the co-pilot picked up the change. Within seconds after that final turn, the co-pilot realized the plane was off course and repeatedly told the pilot, reminding him about the large hill to the right of the runway. Rutherford replied that the autopilot was working fine.
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Budget watchdog says little evidence of labour shortages, skills mismatch `Julian Beltrame
put it on a collision course with the Harper government. The government has made OTTAWA much of a skills mismatch to justify anada’s budget watchdog measures such as the foreign temsays there’s little evidence of porary workers program, stricter serious labour shortages or a skills employment insurance eligibility mismatch problem in the country. rules and the Canada Jobs Grant The finding by the parliamenprogram. But the office says there’s no tary budget office could once again Canadian Press
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tics Canada report last week that found about 200,000 job vacancies across the country in December, the lowest level since the agency began tracking the data in March 2011. The possible exception the PBO cites is Saskatchewan, which in February posted a 3.9 per cent unemployment rate, the lowest in the country. As well, the PBO notes that although the labour market is below trend across most indicators, it is recovering from the recession. In a response, a spokesman for Employment Minister Jason Kenney said the lack of evidence of a national shortage or skills mismatch does not rule out regional and sector-specific labour shortages or skills mismatches. “This report is consistent with what we have been saying, that while there is no national labour shortage, there are regional- and sector-specific skills shortages, which employers have been saying for some time,” said Alexandra Fortier, Kenney’s press secretary.
“There is a paradox of too many Canadians without jobs in an economy of too many jobs without workers.” Of note in the PBO report is a section that suggests the Finance Department used less-ideal methodology, perhaps deliberately, to reach a conclusion that job vacancy was a growing problem when it released the Jobs Report analysis alongside the February budget. The PBO says the government analysis failed to including market indicators relative to their structural levels “despite the Department of Finance having previously calculated trend estimates of labour market indicators.” As well, Finance did not analyze the current data in comparison to previous recovery periods, and appeared to pick and choose time periods for comparison without explanation. The report adds that particularly among young workers, there is indeed a skills mismatch: young workers are often overqualified for their jobs.
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Families of mudslide victims confront grim reality: Some of the dead may never be found Brian Skoloff and Lisa Baumann Associated Press
DARRINGTON, Wash. ecky Bach watches and waits, hoping that search crews find her brother and three other relatives who are missing in Washington state’s deadly mudslide. Doug Massingale waits too, for word about his 4-month-old granddaughter. Searchers were able to identify carpet from the infant’s bedroom, but a log jam stood in the way of a more thorough effort to find little Sanoah Huestis, known as “Snowy.” With little hope to cling to, family members of the missing are beginning to confront a grim reality: Their loved ones might never be found, remaining entombed forever inside a mountain of mud that is believed to have claimed at least 24 lives. “It just generates so many questions if they don’t find them,” Bach said. “I’ve never known anybody to die in a natural disaster. Do they issue death certificates?” Search crews using dogs, bulldozers and their bare hands kept slogging through the mess of broken wood and mud again Wednesday, looking for more bodies or anyone who might still be alive nearly five days after a wall of fast-moving earth destroyed a small rural community. But authorities have acknowledged they might have to leave some victims buried. Trying to recover every corpse would be impractical and dangerous. The debris field is about a square mile and 30 to 40 feet deep in places, with a moon-like surface that includes quicksand-like muck, rainslickened mud and ice. The terrain is difficult to navigate on foot and makes it treacherous or impossible to bring in heavy equipment.
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were allowed to build homes in the area and whether officials had taken proper precautions. Snohomish County Emergency Management Director John Pennington said authorities took steps to mitigate risks after a 2006 landslide and told residents about potential hazards. But the sheer size of this disaster was overwhelming. “It haunts me,” a sometimesemotional Pennington told reporters. “I think we did what we could do. Sometimes large slides happen.” He said the landslide risk has been high this winter, and the Department of Natural Resources put out warnings on a routine basis. Officials will try to learn from this tragedy, he said. Meanwhile, hundreds of rescuers kept slogging through the muck, following search dogs over the unstable surface of the immense pile. For the last three days, “the most effective tool has been dogs and just our bare hands and shovels uncovElaine Thompson/AP Photo ering people,” Snohomish County Eveleen Promise holds her son, Xaven, 7, and stands with her husband Patrick Belt, right, District 21 Fire Chief Travis Hots and Doug Massingale stands behind as they all wait for word of missing family members said. “But the dogs are the ones that at the fire station in Oso, Wash., following a deadly mudslide on Monday. are pinpointing a particular area to look, and we’re looking and that’s eventually, then we’ll deal with that To make matters worse, the pile is believed to be duplicates or people how we’re finding people.” then.” laced with other hazards that include who escaped safely. Massingale said he’s grateful In previous mudslides, many vic- that his daughter, Natasha Huestis, The knowledge that some victims fallen trees, propane and septic tims were left where they perished. tanks, twisted vehicles and countless could be abandoned to the earth is survived the slide. She had gone to Mudslides killed thousands in Vendifficult to accept. shards of shattered homes. Arlington that morning and left her ezuela in 1999, and about 1,500 bod- baby with her mother, Christina Jef“Realistically … I honestly don’t “We have to get on with our lives ies were found. But the death toll was ferds. Her husband Seth, a volunteer think they’re going to find them at some point,” said Bach, who has estimated at 5,000 to 30,000, so the spent the past several days in the area alive,” Bach said, crying. “But as a firefighter, was also away at the time. government declared entire neighfamily, we’re trying to figure out in hopes that searchers would find “She didn’t suffer,” Massingale bourhoods “memorial grounds.” what to do if they find no bodies.” her brother, his wife, her 20-yearsaid after he was told about ChrisAs families grieved, officials Bach spoke via phone about a old great niece and the young girl’s tina’s death. wedding the family had planned for were questioned again Wednesday fiance. Massingale said he would miss his about warnings from years ago that summer at the rural home that was Sixteen bodies have been recovfirst grandchild, a sweet, pretty and showed the potential for catastrophic smiley child. ered, but authorities believe at least destroyed. And how, she wondered, landslides in the area. A 1999 report do you plan a funeral without a 24 people were killed. And scores “It’s stressful to think about,” he body? “We’ll probably just have a by geomorphologist Daniel Miller of others are still unaccounted for, said. “A little baby that hasn’t gotten although many of those names were memorial, and if they find the bodies raised questions about why residents a start yet in life. It’s too much.”
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Egypt prosecutor refers 919 suspected Islamists to two mass trials on charges including murder Sarah El Deeb Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt gypt’s chief prosecutor on Wednesday ordered two trials for a total of 919 suspected Islamists on charges that include murder, pushing ahead with a series of mass tribunals of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi despite international criticism. The policy of mass trials sparked uproar among rights groups after a judge this week issued death sentences against more than 520 defendants on charges of killing a policeman during an attack on a police station last summer. On Wednesday, students in several universities, most of them Islamists, held protests Wednesday against the death sentences, turning into clashes with security forces. An 18-year-old student was killed in the violence at Cairo University, the Health Ministry said. Egyptian authorities are holding a series of trials in a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and other supporters of Morsi since the military removed him in July. Some 16,000 have been arrested over the past months, including most of the Brotherhood’s top leaders. The death sentences issued Monday by a court in the city of Minya, south of Cairo, brought an outcry from rights groups and criticism from the United Nations, European Union and United States over the cursory trial, which lasted only two sessions and in which lawyers said they were denied the right to make their case or question witnesses. The sentences can be appealed, and lawyers expect them to be overturned. On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement that he was “deeply, deeply troubled, by the verdict. ‘’It simply defies logic.“ The two new trials announced Wednesday are also to be held in Minya, the state news agency MENA reported. A judicial official said they will be headed by the same judge, Said Youssef, who also began a new mass trial of more than 680 defendants on Tuesday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press. All told, the four trials involve 2,147 defendants. All the trials are connected to a wave of violence in mid-August after security forces broke up two pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo. More than 600 were killed in the sit-in break-up, setting off a backlash of violence for days as suspected Morsi supporters attacked police stations, government installations and churches in towns around Egypt, leaving hundreds dead. In one of the new trials announced Wednesday, 715 defendants, including the Muslim Brotherhood’s top leader Mohammed Badie, are charged with killing six people and attempted murder of 51 others during attacks on state institutions on
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Supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans during a demonstration inside Ain Shams University in Cairo Egypt, Monday, March 24, 2014. A court in Egypt sentenced 529 Morsi supporters to death, convicting them after only two sessions in one of the largest mass trials in the country in decades.
Aug. 14 in the city of Samalout. Only 160 defendants in this case are in detention. The prosecutor asked for the arrest of the rest. In the second trial, 204 defendants, also including Badie, face charges of inciting violence. Only three are in detention in this case, in which the charges include attacking state institutions and police in al-Adawa town, also in Minya. A court will set a date for the trials. Badie is also a defendant in the trial of 683 defendants that began Tuesday in Minya on murder and attempted murder in connection to a separate attack on a police station that killed two policemen. Badie, who is jailed in Cairo, is in the multiple cases because authorities accuse him of instigating the August rioting. Days after Morsi’s ouster, he gave a fiery speech to supporters at one of the Cairo sit-ins urging them to restore Morsi to office, saying, “We are his soldiers, we will defend him with our lives.” On Wednesday, hundreds of largely Islamist university students in a number of universities protested against the mass death sentences. At Cairo University, hundreds of students who attempted to take their protest outside the campus were met with volleys of tear gas from police. Khadiga el-Kholy, a student participating in the protest, said the police force gave no warnings before firing the tear gas, sending the students rushing back on campus. Students responded by throwing stones and fireworks and hurling tear gas canisters back at the security forces in pitched street battles. TV footage showed security in civilian clothes detaining protesters and tak-
ing them away in blindfolds. There were also images of the security seizing fire bombs from young protesters. El-Kholy said police fired birdshot at the protesters. “We wanted to escalate our protest because of those death sentences, which included university students,” she said, adding that the protesters had sought to move into a nearby public square outside the campus. “We want to break the barriers that the security forces have imposed on all the squares.” In the Nile Delta city of Zagazig, police said students damaged the facade of an administrative building in the local university and clashed with rival students, prompting to security forces to enter the campus and arrest eight rioters.
Thousands of Morsi supporters are already arrested and most are facing trials on a number of charges, including inciting violence, and rioting. Morsi’s Islamist supporters have continued to hold protests against his ouster. Authorities accuse the group of fomenting violence and terrorism, a claim the group denies. The pro-Morsi camp has refused to recognize the new political road map installed by the military after his ouster. Presidential elections are now expected next month. The head of the military, Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who removed Morsi, is widely expected to run for president – and win the election. On Wednesday, the council of top generals, the Supreme Council
of Armed Forces, convened a meeting with interim President Adly Mansour, military spokesman Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said in a statement on his official Facebook page. He did not elaborate on the meeting. A military official speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door meeting, said el-Sissi was expected to give the council his resignation from the military and his post as defence minister, a required step before he can announce his candidacy. As Egypt awaited an announcement on el-Sissi, a presidential spokesman said that Mansour had promoted Sidki Sobhi, chief of staff, to general from lieutenant general during the meeting. Sobhi is expected to replace el-Sissi as defence minister.
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Libya’s out of control weapons spread across region, fueling conflicts Maggie Michael Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya t the heart of the Libyan capital, the open-air Fish Market was once a place where residents went to buy everything from meat and seafood to clothes and pets. Now it’s Tripoli’s biggest arms market, with tables displaying pistols and assault rifles. Ask a vendor, and he can pull out bigger machine-guns to sell for thousands of dollars. Libya, where hundreds of militias hold sway and the central government is virtually powerless, is awash in millions of weapons with no control over their trafficking. The arms free-for-all fuels not only Libya’s instability but also stokes conflicts around the region as guns are smuggled through the country’s wide-open borders to militants fighting in insurgencies and wars stretching from Syria to West Africa. The lack of control is at times stunning. Last month, militia fighters stole a planeload of weapons sent by Russia for Libya’s military when it stopped to refuel at Tripoli In-
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Libyan militia members organize munitions at a base in Benghazi. Much of the rebels’ ammo and weaponry now comes from Tripoli’s Fish Market, which has gone from popular public food market to Libya’s largest arms bazaar.
ternational Airport on route to a base in the south. The fighters surrounded the plane on the tarmac and looted the shipment of automatic weapons and ammunition,
Hashim Bishr, an official with a Tripoli security body under the Interior Ministry, told The Associated Press. In a further indignity, the fighters belonged to a mili-
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Friday, March 28, 2014 as much weapons as they can because no group knows how well armed rival groups are, creating a climate of “mutual fear,” Bishr said. There is also a strong domestic market for weapons among the public for personal protection. Nearly every household is believed to have at least one gun, but usually it’s several. The Fish Market is one main source in Tripoli – located only steps from the capital’s historic Red Castle, where Gadhafi delivered a speech from the ramparts during the 2011 uprising, threatening to open his arsenal to the public and turn Libya into “a red fire.” Smuggling abroad is also big business. Abdel-Basit Haroun, a former top intelligence official, said tribes and militias that control the eastern, western, and southern borders are engaged in arms smuggling. A 97-page report released in March by United Nations Panel of Experts said weapons that originated in Libya were found in 14 countries, often reaching militant groups. The report said smuggling is mainly from Libyan militias’ arsenals. Sophisticated man-portable, ground-to-air missile systems, known as MANPADS, have reached four conflict zones, including Chad and Mali. “Fears that terrorist groups would acquire these weapons have materialized,” the report said. A MANPADS that militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula used to shoot down an Egyptian military helicopter this year originated in Libya, it said. Libyan weapons were also found in Somalia, the Central African Republic and in parts of Nigeria where the militant group Boko Haram operates, it said. In Niger, weapons used in the country’s first suicide attack – last May – were typical of the Libyan arsenals and appear to have been smuggled in through Mali. Another major destination for Libya’s weapons is Syria. The report said investigators found that Qatar has been using its air force flights to transport weapons from Libya and eventually to Turkey, from where they are passed to rebels in Syria. The report said Russian-made weapons bought in 2000 by Gadhafi’s regime were found in the hands of Islamic militant rebels in Syria. “In a very real sense, Libya is exporting its insecurity to surrounding countries,” wrote one of the authors of the report, Brian Katulis, a senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. Efforts by Libya to control the weapons traffic have gone nowhere. In a Catch-22, mili-
tias say they cannot surrender their weapons until there is a proper military and police force to keep security in the country, yet the regular forces cannot be rebuilt when militias have so much power. Under the Libyan government’s Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration program, some 160,000 militiamen have been registered under the Interior Ministry’s Warriors Affairs Agency. A small portion of them have given up their weapons and demobilized. But most have been assigned various security tasks in an attempt to rope militias under state aegis. Zuhair al-Ugli, the head of communications for the Warrior Affairs Agency, said there is no mechanism for dealing with the tide of guns.
“The state is paralyzed in collecting the weapons,” he said. Abdul Rahman AlAgeli, a security co-ordinator in the prime minister’s office, said the government is “effectively drowning” and that authorities have “not demonstrated any tangible vision” for demobilizing and disarming militias. Authorities are divided on how to deal with the militias. Some see them as the only hope for providing security for the next few years until formal security services are rebuilt, while others say the militias must be disarmed for stability, he wrote in an online presentation hosted by the Canadian-based Centre for Security Governance thinktank .
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Jon Steinman will showcase some of his foodie journalism at a screening of his TV and web series Deconstructing Dinner this Saturday at the Old Fire Hall in Whitehorse.
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producer, Jon Steinman, who will be on hand at the Old Fire Hall Saturday night to answer quesarlic is a building block tions, give a short presentation, of cuisines around the and screen two segments of the world. It’s a flavour staple, show. its presence lurking in more Steinman, who’s based in soups and stews and sauces and Nelson, B.C., is a longtime food sautes than many of us realize. enthusiast. He grew up in OnBut despite its ubiquity, garlic tario, and completed a bachelor production is intensely concenof commerce degree at the Unitrated: 75 per cent of the world’s versity of Guelph with a focus on bulbs come from China, and of hotel and food administration. the garlic consumed in North “That’s kind of where my whole America, 45 per cent comes from food journey began,” he says. just four companies in California. “I realized at the end of those Beyond the garlic industrial four years that I didn’t necessarcomplex, there’s a growing array ily receive the entire story. I was of backyard garlic growers, garlic missing out on a big piece, which festivals, garlic-obsessed chefs, was the story of where the food is and heirloom garlic farmers – actually coming from.” and their stories will be told in After university, Steinman got a special screening of a foodwork in the restaurant industry, focused television series, this in a variety of managerial and weekend in Whitehorse. supervisory roles, and he landed Deconstructing Dinner: at several places that had unique Reconstructing Our Food Systies to their suppliers – restautem airs on Toronto’s iChannel. rants that worked directly with Each episode focuses on a single, farmers to source their food, crucial food: There are episodes for instance. After his move to British Columbia, he did a stint devoted to eggs, wheat, garlic, at the restaurant at Mission Hill tomatoes, honey, and pork. The Winery, where the staff actually show is hosted by its writer and New Reporter
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went out in the fields and helped harvest the crops that went into the kitchen’s dishes. Eventually he moved into serving – he liked talking to people best, he realized. He moved to Nelson in 2004, and in 2006 he put his gift of gab to work, hosting a show on Kootenay Co-op Radio. It was called Deconstructing Dinner, and it used interviews to explore the ways we interact with our food. “The idea was to go behind the scenes of our food system and look at the ways in which food gets from the farm to the plate, and to understand all the food systems, whether they’re economic, or political,” he says. “And then on the flip-side we also looked at how people and communities are reconstructing the food systems.” The radio show, which was eventually accompanied by a syndicated newspaper column, aired for four years. Not long after stepping away from the radio show, Steinman met award-winning Torontobased television producer Declan O’Driscoll. O’Driscoll had just wrapped up work on Milk War, a
documentary about an Ontario raw milk farmer’s battle to legalize his product that would go on to win a James Beard Award. (“They’re the Oscars of food,” Steinman says.) The pair decided to transform the Deconstructing Dinner concept into a television series, swapping out Steinman’s more freeform radio interview approach for a tighter model. The emphasis on just one specific food per episode allowed them to tackle broader issues – breeding practices and biochemistry in the tomatoes episode, for instance – while maintaining a focused storyline. Choosing the six foods that the show would focus on was a challenge, Steinman says. They started with a list of 26, narrowed it down to 13, and eventually chose a final half-dozen. The cuts he regrets most? Salmon and salt. And his preferred episodes? “The one that’s most personal to me is the wheat episode,” he says. “That’s one that actually tells a little bit of the story about a project I was involved in.”
The garlic episode, he adds, is a favourite too. Garlic is also one of his favourite foods. He’s also “a sucker for venison,” he says, as well as other wild meats. He can’t get enough of salmon, honey or maple syrup. And he’s especially fond of huckleberries. Steinman is being hosted in Whitehorse by the Potluck Food Co-op, a recently launched member-owned grocery store that connects Yukoners to local, organic and sustainably grown foods. At home in Nelson, Steinman is on the board of directors of Kootenay Co-op, Canada’s largest independent consumer food co-op, and before the screenings he’ll discuss his role there and the work that the co-op is doing. He’ll also take questions, and the Deconstructing Dinner episodes devoted to garlic and tomatoes will be shown. The event takes place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 29 at the Old Fire Hall. For anyone interested in getting involved, the Potluck Food Co-op will also be holding its annual general meeting there at 6 p.m.
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Arctic regulators consider offshore drilling rules as industry interest grows Bob Weber
low,” said Louie Porta, science and policy adviser with Oceans North, part of the Pew Environrowing industry interest in mental Trust. the offshore oil resources In the western Arctic, an of Canada’s Arctic is forcing aboriginal regulator is setting northerners from east to west to up hearings into a plan led by confront hard questions about Imperial Oil to drill exploratory development. wells in the Beaufort Sea in No actual drilling is likely to 2020. The wells would be about happen for years. 175 kilometres offshore from But major decisions are beTuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., in water ing taken now as projects enter up to 850 metres deep, and are the regulatory system. so complex and difficult to drill Governments, aboriginal that the company estimates it groups and Arctic communities would take at least two seasons are considering issues such as to complete one. how to plug possible blowouts, In the eastern Arctic, the who benefits from developNational Energy Board is conment and whether some waters sidering a proposal for seismic should remain closed. tests off Baffin Island that has “The first time this process sparked fierce community opgoes forward, it’s going to set position. In response to that proposal, the federal governa template for others to folCanadian Press
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as the one that happened with BP in the Gulf of Mexico. But the board said other equally effective methods would be considered. Imperial has said it’s simply not possible to drill a same-season relief well in that region. Cournoyea said the Inuvialuit are waiting for more information on how the company would respond to a blowout. “We’re dealing with that right now, to see if we can get more information on what that option might be,” said Cournoyea, who added that Inuvialuit representatives have travelled to the Gulf of Mexico. Regulatory decisions on Imperial’s plans to stop a blowout and limit the release of oil will be crucial for subsequent proposals, said Porta. “There’s this ideology that we can prevent our way out of spills,” he said. “But there’s a logical miscue to suggest that prevention technologies equal meaningful response when things go wrong. I think it establishes a dangerous precedent as Canada continues to figure out how to drill safely in an Arctic context.” On Baffin Island, the National Energy Board has concluded hearings on plans by a consortium to start looking for oil off the eastern coast with seismic testing late this summer. The project is bitterly opposed by coastline communities that fear the loud noises will disturb marine mammal migrations. The municipality of Clyde River says the companies haven’t provided any information on which animals use the area or how their activities
might be affected. “The proposed seismic testing and the resulting oil and gas drilling it would bring are not balanced development,” the hamlet wrote to the energy board. “The (hunters and trappers organization) and hamlet council are firmly opposed to seismic testing in Davis Strait and Baffin Bay.” Aboriginal Affairs says no decisions have been made about whether those waters ultimately will be opened to oil and gas drilling, even if the energy board approves seismic testing. “The strategic environmental assessment for potential offshore oil and gas exploration in Baffin Bay/Davis Strait will recommend to the minister if, where and when the region should be opened for exploration activities,” say government documents. Porta praises Ottawa for the attempt to get out in front of potential industry activity in the eastern Arctic. “It’s a great way to look at a broad question and understand and deal with some of the bigpicture issues,” he said. “To deal with those up front – things like what areas should be open for rights, what does a meaningful royalty package look like for Inuit – it’s the best way to make big, important decisions.” It will be years before northerners see offshore drill rigs, if ever. But now is when the decisions about how that return will be managed are being made, said Porta. “You don’t go from something to nothing quickly with Arctic oil and gas. The decisions happen now.”
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In 2007 the United Nations adopted World Autism Awareness Day shining a bright light on autism as a growing global health crisis. World Autism Awareness Day activities help to increase and develop world knowledge of the autism epidemic and impart information regarding the importance of early diagnosis and early intervention. Additionally, this day celebrates the unique talents and skills of persons with autism and is a day when individuals with autism are warmly welcomed and embraced in community events around the globe.
What is Autism? Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) affects 1 in 88 children across the globe (1 in 54 boys). ASD is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. That’s a fancy way of saying that children and adults with Autism may have trouble making friends or understanding the “rules” of friendship. They might have trouble with speaking the same as “typical folks” or sometimes little people with ASD might sound really grown up when they talk! People with ASD usually like routines. If things are different, it might be really upsetting. And finally people with Autism might do things that look odd to me and you. They might like to spin, rock, or flap their hands. Sometimes it makes them feel better to do that, or it’s their way of showing that they are feeling a bit anxious or upset.
People with ASD also have a higher chance of having seizures, digestive disorders, sleep disorders and mental illness. How can you be a good friend to someone with an ASD? Well, pretty much the same as any friend: Be kind, be patient, get to know their unique strengths & challenges, include your friends in your games and events.
Some other tips:
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Accept your friend’s differences. Join your friend in activities that interest him or her. Be patient – understand that your friend doesn’t mean to bother you or others. Wait – give him or her extra time to answer your question or complete an activity. Invite your friend to play with you and to join you in group activities. Teach your friend how to play by showing them what they can do in an activity or game. Never be afraid to ask your teacher questions about your classmates with autism. Help other kids learn about autism.
To celebrate world Autism Awareness Day Autism Yukon is hosting a
free public presenTATion
by Nathan Best, paramedic, and father of 4 children (3 of whom are on the autism spectrum). Nathan will speak about his family’s journey with autism. Through personal stories, insight and humour Nathan will share what he has learned so far as a parent and professional.
AuTism: A fATher’s perspecTive Yukon Beringia Centre April 2, 2014 7:00 pm
Free!!! Questions? Please call 667-6406
World Autism Awareness Day
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Arctic shipping remains a distant dream for now, transport minister says
What’s New? Now Hiring: Heavy Duty Equipment Mechanic Permanent Full Time 40 hours per week – 10 hours per day – scheduled between 0700 and 0700 hours, Sunday to Saturday. The incumbent inspects, repairs, services and maintains all City-owned heavy duty, light duty and specialized equipment, and automotive vehicles. Salary up to $37.76 per hour. This is a unionized position and contract negotiations are in progress. The City of Whitehorse offers a competitive benefits and leave package. Interested candidates should forward applications/ resumes to careers@whitehorse.ca by 11:59pm April 6, quoting 035-OPS-14. For more information, go to: whitehorse.ca/ careers
Standing Committee Meeting Mar. 31 At 5:30 pm in City Hall Council Chambers: Contract Awards – Grader and Track Excavator; Transportation Demand Management Plan Final Report; Re-budgeting Capital Expenditures; Authorize Travel – Association Yukon Communities; Report on Public Hearing – Zoning Amendment (37-14th Ave). For more details, visit: whitehorse.ca/agendas
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Alexander Panetta Canadian Press
WASHINGTON he centuries-old dream of shipping through the Northwest Passage will remain mostly illusory for the foreseeable future, Canada’s transport minister indicated Tuesday in a blunt assessment of the challenges ahead. During an appearance in Washington, Lisa Raitt played down expectations that the Arctic is on the cusp of becoming an international shipping hub because of climate change. She offered a list of concerns she’s heard from the shipping industry, including from insurance companies – the ones Raitt said are really calling the shots when it comes to what’s allowed to pass through the area. The obstacles include shallow passes and a lack of navigational markers, she said. The prospect of having a shipment stuck up there would wipe out any potential time-savings offered by the shorter intercontinental route And then there’s the frightening prospect of oil spills. “I don’t see it happening right now,” Raitt said in a lengthy, freewheeling question-and-answer session at the Canadian American Business Council. “I’m passionate about it. But I don’t think it’s a panacea, and I don’t think the Panama Canal or the Suez Canal … have any worries of competition from the Northwest Passage right now.” The delay’s not necessarily a bad thing, she said. Policy-makers now have time to prepare all the safety protocols necessary to protect the pristine region from spills. Raitt said she’s looking forward to the release of a report this fall with recommendations on shipping north of the 60th parallel. “I can tell you – one oil spill or accident in the Arctic is one visual
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you do not want to have in this world at all,” Raitt said. “It’s not just always about the economy. I can’t believe I said that as a Conservative. But it’s not always about the economy. You’ve got to balance it out with what’s happening in terms of safety, and the environment too.” Successive Canadian governments, especially the current one, have pointed to an impending burst of Arctic activity as a source of national pride. There have even been differences of opinion with other countries, including the U.S., about who would have sovereignty over the bustling new shipping routes. For now, Raitt said, it’s baby steps. She noted that a coal shipment made it through the region faster than she expected last year. She said Canadian officials watched that ship like hawks, wary of any possible accident. Otherwise, most of the shipping in the region consists of north-south trips by supply ships, she said. Raitt appears to understand the file well, said John Higginbotham, a former Canadian diplomat who focuses on the Arctic at Carleton University’s Centre for International Governance Innovation. “I think she’s struck a good balance between realism and caution,” Higginbotham said. “She’s very well-qualified to speak on this topic, given her ports background (as head of the Toronto port authority).” But the challenges facing Arctic shipping don’t make it impossible, he added, citing last year’s coal shipment as evidence that insurers can come onside, and that safe shipments can indeed be achieved. The potential payoff is huge, Higginbotham said, starting with far shorter routes from Asia to North America’s east coast that could eventually mean cheaper goods, quicker shipments, and lower greenhouse-
gas emissions. Whether it happens will depend on two things: the extent of climate change, and government policy, said Higginbotham. The feds would need to invest in search-and-rescue, harbours of refuge, oil-spill mitigation, communications and navigational aids, he added. For now, Russia appears to have jumped out ahead in developing its Arctic shipping capacity, Higginbotham said, although it’s commonly believed shipping there would be much easier than through Canada’s northern archipelago. During her question-and-answer session, Raitt also hinted that Russia’s status within the Arctic Council might be under review. She said she couldn’t speak to the file, which belongs to Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq, but said her own department has cut off its points of contact with Russia as a result of the crisis in Ukraine. Later Tuesday, Raitt delivered a speech warning U.S. lawmakers not to impose a tax on Canadian ports. Without specifically threatening retaliation, she said Canada would respond by protecting its industry. There are bills before the Senate and House of Representatives that would slap a 0.125 per cent tax on goods from Canadian ports. The measure, which is meant to replace a harbour-maintenance tax on U.S. ports, was introduced by Democrats from Washington state. Similar bills have been defeated several times before. “I think this is the fourth time that we’ve seen something like this happen,” Raitt said after her speech at the American Association of Port Authorities. “Our position the last three times hasn’t changed. It’s always been the same. We believe that adding tariffs at the border doesn’t make sense for a strong, bilateral friendship and relationship.”
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Little to fear, much to gain from Chinese investment in oil patch: report ‘It’s not going to come from the OECD (countries); it’s not going to come from the United States. China is on a trajectory to be one of the largest outward investors on the planet and they are increasing their investment by leaps bounds in the United States and not much in Canada right now.’ Julian Beltrame
from?” she asks. “It’s not going to come from the OECD (countries); it’s not going to come from the OTTAWA United States. China is on a trajeche Harper government’s cracktory to be one of the largest outward down on state-owned enterpris- investors on the planet and they are es investing in Canada is wrongincreasing their investment by leaps headed and will wind up harming bounds in the United States and not the oilpatch and the country as a much in Canada right now.” whole, says a report by a respected She points out that Chinese trade expert. investment in this country appears The paper, by Wendy Dobson to have come to a standstill in 2013, of the Rotman Institute for Interalthough there are other factors at national Business, argues that the play, including uncertainty about government’s fears about Chinese commodity demand and prices and firms buying up Canada’s oilpatch about pipeline development. But are misplaced. Dobson believes the Harper governMoreover, she says the government’s new restrictions on SOEs is ment’s new policy announced after also a major factor. the controversial Nexen-CNOOC In December 2012, the governdeal in 2012 aimed at state-owned ment announced the approval of enterprises, or SOEs, will deprive the two controversial takeovers in the oilsands of needed cash for develop- oil and gas sector by Chinese-owned ment. CNOOC and Malaysian-controlled Dobson, who wrote the paper Petronas, but at the same time said for the School of Public Policy at future majority takeovers by SOEs the University of Calgary, says that would only be given the green light according to reliable estimates, the under “exceptional” circumstances. oilsands will require $100 billion in Former Harper cabinet minister capital investment into 2019. Jim Prentice, now an executive with “Where is that going to come CIBC, was among the first to sound Canadian Press
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the alarm, saying in a speech in London almost a year later that foreign investment into Canada had fallen sharply and from China had all but dried up. Definitive data has yet to be released, but Steve MacKinnon of Hill and Knowlton Strategies, which was involved in the CNOOC deal, agreed that the new policy has cooled foreign investment. “Anyone on Bay Street will tell you that there has been an incredible lessening of interest,” he said. The Alberta government has also expressed concern. Dobson said the problem with Ottawa’s policy is that it clouds an approval regime that was already muddy and subject to arbitrary decision-making. SOEs must pass the ill-defined “net benefit” test and the national security test under the Canada Investment Act, and would still likely be rejected if the government decides the circumstances are not “exceptional.” She said the problem with the Ottawa’s position, aside from scaring away companies that don’t understand the rules, is that it focuses on
the nature of the ownership rather than behaviour on the ground. “We have the regulatory system and the regulators to exert oversight on everything from the treatment of workers to labour relations, the environment, finance, so we should be treating them in terms of how they behave,” she said. The other problem is that Canada likely needs China more than the
other way around. She said China is investing in natural resource sectors around the world and Canada will miss out if it shuts the door of Chinese SOEs. Dobson adds that the government has also failed to appreciate that, increasingly, Chinese SOEs are being forced to operate by their government as regular companies, not as political entities.
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Forget about a crash, Conference Board gives housing market clean bill of health Julian Beltrame
ports that the market is overbuilt and overvalued. Rather, the report argues that OTTAWA with the possible exception of he Conference Board isn’t Toronto, housing starts the past buying the notion that Cana- three years have been roughly in da’s housing market will suddenly line with the 20-year average. crumble, saying the most likely Even in Toronto, there is only a outlook is for a modest decline “borderline” case that it could be nationally and in some specific overbuilt. markets. “At this point in the housing The Ottawa-based think-tank cycle, there is a risk that Canadian argues in a comprehensive new housing prices in some market look at real estate in Canada that segments are due for a modest the conditions for a crash simply correction,” the report states. “Nevertheless, we believe that don’t exist, despite numerous reCanadian Press
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continued population growth, additional employment gains and modest mortgage rate increases will limit potential price declines in 2014 and 2015.” There is a case for more dramatic price adjustment further out if higher mortgage rates start crimping affordability, the Conference Board says, but even then it is likely to be a soft rather than a hard landing. In recent years, some economists and international organizations such as the OECD, the IMF, Deutsche Bank and The Economist magazine have described Canada’s housing market in stark
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terms, characterizing it as among the priciest in the world based on historical averages and other metrics. But the consensus of economists within Canada has tended to be more subdued. Last week, the Canadian Real Estate Association also predicted a slowdown as mortgage rates start edging up later in the year, but it still saw the market overall growing in 2014 and 2015. The Conference Board says fears of a housing bubble about to burst in Canada are exaggerated. It says some of the evidence cited by correction hawks, including comparing home prices as a multiple of rental costs, don’t take into account historically-low mortgage rates that keeps affordability steady. Citing Toronto, it notes that in 2013 mortgage payments consumed less than 20 per cent of average household income, the same as in 1993. “Mortgage costs, not just house prices, are the principal deciding factor for potential homebuyers,” says Robin Wiebe, the thinktank’s senior economist. Even when mortgage rates do start rising, the Conference Board believes it will happen gradually and over an extended period. For instance, it forecasts rates with
only a gain of 200 basis points – two percentage points – by 2017 or 2018. But at current low rates, the typical homeowner on a posted five-year rate will have paid down $42,104 principal on a $100,000 in mortgage debt, so affordability won’t be seriously impacted once it comes time to renew at a higher rate. The Conference Board provides an outlook on six major cities: • Vancouver: Moved back into balance last spring. Recent price gains will give way to slower advances in 2014. • Calgary: A approaching sellers’ conditions, noting strong price gains last year. • Edmonton: Balanced, with brisk resale and price growth activity last year. • Toronto: Balanced with healthy price growth. A major correction is difficult to see given solid employment and population growth. • Ottawa: Market cooling due to falling employment from the government sector, flatter sales and tempered prices. • Montreal: Flirting with buyer’s market conditions with sales and average prices having dropped somewhat last year.
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Odds of getting a lost cellphone returned? Not much better than 50/50: study to an address labelled as “Me” in the Contacts app with an offer to return the phone. And the peeping continued. About half an hour later, a Passwords app was accessed. Then, after another hour had passed, Social Networking and Online Banking apps were tapped. A few days elapsed without the phone being used. When it was plugged in to recharge, several more apps were accessed and the following day, there was more digging into the contents of the phone. That storyline wasn’t unusual.
mobile data connection and it’s likely that one of two scenarios played out. It’s possible the phones were taken to a lost and found and were turned off or remained untouched until their batteries died. Or the SIM cards from the phones could have been yanked immediately after they were found, which would have cut off the signal back to the researchers. “Somebody who picked it up could have figured, ‘I’m selling this on eBay … I’m going to go home, factory reset and try to wipe it and get rid of the phone,”’ Tiranardi says.
Ninety-three per cent of the phones were accessed in some way by the people who found them. Social networking and corporate-related apps were tapped on about two-thirds of the phones, while passwords, photos and emails apps were launched on half of the devices. An online banking app was accessed on one in three phones. While it appeared to researchers that seven per cent of the phones were not accessed in any way, that might not be the case. Tiranardi says the tracking of taps was based on the phone’s
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A new study says that the chances of getting a lost phone returned are no better than a coin toss.
Michael Oliveira
have absolutely no hope their private information will remain private.” TORONTO Of the 60 phones in the test, he odds of having a lost 55 per cent of them were picked cellphone returned are just up by someone who attempted to a little better than 50/50, while return the device. the chances of it being probed Twenty-seven phones were by its finder are close to 100 per grabbed and never returned – and cent, according to the results of they weren’t even flashy high-end an experiment conducted in six smartphones. Symantec used Canadian cities. older Google Android phones for Security software company Sy- the experiment. mantec dropped 10 phones each Among the questions that Syin Calgary, Halifax, Montreal, mantec wanted to answer with the Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver study was how persistent people and waited to see if they would be would be in poking around a returned. found phone. Each phone was preloaded The answer was very. with icons for phoney apps deOne phone dropped at a signed to tempt the finders into Calgary bus stop was found by tapping on them. Tracking softan honourable person eager to ware recorded what they couldn’t return it. But while waiting to resist peeking at. establish contact with the rightStefano Tiranardi, an inforful owner, that person did some mation protection specialist extensive snooping. with Symantec Canada, says he’s The phone was picked up just disappointed by the results of the 25 minutes after being dropped experiment. and right away an app labelled “I was surprised at the higher- Contacts and another with the than-expected numbers,” Tirana- name Social Networking were tapped. Nine minutes later, a HR rdi says. Salaries app was opened. “Really, individuals who misSoon after, an email was sent place a phone or have it stolen Canadian Press
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At toilet tech fair, India finds profit in waste Katy Daigle
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s challenge to reinvent the toilet showcased their inventions NEW DELHI in the Indian capital Saturday. ho would have expected The primary goal: to sanitize a toilet to one day filter waste, use minimal water or water, charge a cellphone or cre- electricity, and produce a usable product at low cost. ate charcoal to combat climate The World Bank estimates the change? annual global cost of poor saniThese are lofty ambitions beyond what most of the world’s tation at $260 billion, including 2.5 billion people with no access loss of life, missed work, medical bills and other related factors. to modern sanitation would India alone accounts for $54 bilexpect. Yet, scientists and toilet innovators around the world say lion – more than the entire GDP these are exactly the sort of goals of Kenya or Costa Rica. India is by far the worst needed to improve global public culprit, with more than 640 health amid challenges such million people defecating in the as poverty, water scarcity and open and producing a stunning urban growth. 72,000 tons of human waste Scientists who accepted the each day – the equivalent weight of almost 10 Eiffel Towers or novelty key holders 1,800 humpback whales. Pooping in public is so acceptable that many Indians will 207 Main street tel: 633-4842 do it on sidewalks or in open fields. Gaze out the window Associated Press
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An exhibitor from Loughborough University demonstrates the use of a toilet during Reinvent The Toilet Fair in New Delhi, India.
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Meanwhile, diarrheal diseases kill 700,000 children every year, most of which could have been prevented with better sanitation. “In the West, such things are a nuisance, but people don’t lose their lives,” said Christopher Elias, president of global development at the Gates Foundation. “People don’t immediately realize the damage done by infections coming from human waste.” India has been encouraging rural communities to build toilets, and last year launched a $1.6 billion program to help. But building sanitation systems in developing countries is not easy. Flush toilets are not always an option. Many poor communities live in water-stressed areas. Others lack links to sewage pipes or treatment plants. To be successful, scientists said, the designs being exhibited at Saturday’s Toilet Fair had to go beyond treating urine and feces as undesirable waste, and recognize them as profit-generating resources for electricity, fertilizer or fuel. “Traditionally, people have gone into communities and said, ‘Let’s dig you a pit.’ That’s seen as condescension, a token that isn’t very helpful. After all, who is going to clean that pit?” said M. Sohail, professor of sustainable infrastructure at Loughborough University in the U.K. The designs are mostly funded by Gates Foundation grants and in various stages of development, though others not created as part of the Gates challenge were also exhibiting on Saturday. Some toilets collapsed neatly for easy portability into music festivals, disaster zones or illegal slums. One emptied into pits populated by waste-munching cockroaches and worms. One Washington-based company, Janicki Industries, designed a power plant that could feed off the waste from a small city to produce 150 kilowatts of electricity, enough to power thousands of homes.
The University of the West of England, Bristol, showcased a urine-powered fuel cell to charge cellphones overnight. Another team from the University of Colorado, Boulder, brought a system concentrating solar power through fiber optic cables to heat waste to about 300 degrees Celsius. Aside from killing pathogens, the process creates a charcoal-like product called biochar useful as cooking fuel or fertilizer. “At the core are really interesting scientific principles, so translating this into scientific advances that people can relate to is really exciting,” said one of the project leaders, Karl Linden, professor of environmental engineering in Boulder. “Biochar is an important subject for scientists at the moment, since it can be used to sequester carbon in the soil for 1,000 years or more.” A team from Beijing Sunnybreeze Technologies Inc. also brought a solar-biochar system, but with the solar panels heating air that will dry sludgy human waste into nuggets that are then heated further under low-oxygen conditions to create biochar. “We are trying to build a system simple enough to be fixed in the village,” technical adviser John Keating said. One company from the southern Indian state of Kerala was not as concerned with providing toilets as with cleaning them. Toilets are more common in Kerala than they are in much of the country, but no one wants to clean them, said Bincy Baby of Eram Scientific Solutions. “There is a stigma. The lowest of the low are the ones who clean the toilets,” Baby said. Eram’s solution is a coin-operated eToilet with an electronic system that triggers an automated, selfcleaning mechanism. With 450 prototypes now looped into sewage systems across India, electrical engineers are lining up for jobs as toilet technicians. “Now, they’re proud of their jobs.”
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ukoners cleaned-up at the Buckwheat Classic cross country ski race at Log Cabin over the weekend. The race’s namesake, organizer and some might say its soul, Buckwheat Donahue, says it’s “a race organized by Americans for Canadians to win.” He says Alaskans win the race only when they secretly change the distance of the course. Yukon males have come first in the 50 km category roughly 50 per cent of the 28 years of the race’s existence. Females from the Yukon, meanwhile, only win in that category, said Donahue. And it’s by design, he maintains. Donahue delivers his characteristic belly laugh and proclaims, “I was horny!” to explain why the race came into being. He says he wanted some of those Lycra-sporting females he’d seen in pictures to come to Skagway. The first year the road between Skagway and Whitehorse was open year-round was the first year of the Buckwheat Classic. Donahue says the inaugural race had 14 contenders; the eight Skagwegians were hung-over and wore fat powder skis. The three male and three female racers from Whitehorse wore Lycra and skinny skis. These days, the Buckwheat Classic has become a different event altogether. This year, Donahue attended the pre-race pancake breakfast, shook hands, talked about the weather and speculated on who would win the best costume award. Every year, the race is themed. Some skiers do wear Lycra, while others get into the spirit with costumes. This year’s “life is a circus” theme meant contenders included clowns, bearded ladies, and Siamese twins. Sunshine Giesbrecht of Whitehorse dressed-up as a rocket girl and won the best costume award. At the start line, Donahue howled as each category started the race. Roughly three kilometres into the course, skiers found a snow palace. Volunteers handed out orange slices and chunks of milk chocolate. The most popular man at the snow palace wore a kilt and a fanny pack filled with a variety of Scotch. Volunteers would yell “emergency!” as a racer who didn’t want to stop passed the palace, and the man in the kilt would run out to administer a swig of Scotch on the fly. Some participants’ races ended at the snow palace. Stacks of skis, poles and backpacks were lined-up outside. Racers lounged in the sun, drank beers and ate the hamburgers that were barbecued inside the palace. Donahue
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Race founder Buckwheat Donahue gets his face painted before the start of the 2014 Buckwheat ski race.
the race has changed over the years. He’s been in Whitehorse on-and-off for 25 years, and says before there were way more people competing in the 50-km category, just for the sake of the race. Now, unless something is ultra-competitive, he says it doesn’t seem important for people to try to win. Donahue says the neighborliness of the Buckwheat Classic may be his favourite element of the race these days. He says the race has been “a catalyst for tremendous relations” between First Nation governments, Parks Canada and BC Parks, who all work with Donahue to organize the race. Juneau resident John Staub says he’s been to “four or five” Buckwheat Classics. He says he enjoyed the sun as he competed, slowly, in the 10-km category this year. After the race he planned to continue down the Katie Emmets/Skagway News pass to Whitehorse with his wife, Kids gather by a clown snow carving at the start of the Buckwheat ski to go to the Takhini Hot Springs race outside Skagway Alaska and try the different espressos in town. Brook says the Buckwheat Yukoners because cross-country says this year’s weather is the best from Skagway – the only male skiing is such a strong sport here. Classic gives people a chance to in the 50-km category not from they’ve seen in eight years. “If see what they can do. “Irrelevant As Donahue awarded Dave Whitehorse was from Juneau. He you’re a Yukon virgin and were of your finishing position, you Brook with his trophy for comfinished seventh out of seven. introduced on a day like this, go to the starting line and you ing first in the men’s 50-km About 60 per cent of the racers yeah baby!” want to see what your body can category, he said Brook had an Some racers were allured from were from Whitehorse. produce.” advantage because of nationals: Janelle Greer won the 50-km afar by the Buckwheat Classic. Donahue, meanwhile, says race. There were only five females All the young racers were away. This year 328 skiers registered. the ski race has become such a Brook is 45-years-old and competing, all from Whitehorse. They came from the Czech success, “I don’t even have time says Donahue is probably right. The 21-year-old says she’s been Republic, Germany, Pennsylto flirt!” skiing since she was tiny, and she “It’s the only reason we are vania and Ontario. There were Meagan Deuling is a freelance writer in Whitehorse. getting awards.” But Brook says thinks the race is popular for more racers from Juneau than
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Thousands of moccasin tops a memorial for missing, murdered native women Chinta Puxley
up “Walking With Our Sisters,” a travelling art exhibit to pay tribute to hundreds of aboriginal women WINNIPEG who have been reported missing or ome of the beadwork is simple: murdered over the last 20 years. flowers or a bear’s paw, the “They are just the tops so they words “love” and “hope” scrawled are intentionally not sewn into the by a child’s hand. moccasins to reflect the unfinished Some is more intricate: a picture lives of the women, and the loss of of an aboriginal woman, yellow potential, and the loss of the next embroidered police tape scrolling generations that they would be a down the bottom, or half a woman’s part of,” said Metis artist Christi face with a label saying, “Hello My Belcourt, who put together the Name Is: Who Cares.” exhibit. They are just some of the 1,726 Belcourt came up with the idea pairs of moccasin tops that make after repeatedly seeing posters of Canadian Press
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Sherry Farrell Racette helped curate the exhibit and contributed two vamps herself. One was inspired by an outdoor meeting she attended with a Winnipeg family desperately searching for Tanya Nepinak, who was herself a mother. She disappeared in September 2011 and, although her remains have never been found, police believe she was killed. As Nepinak’s family talked about their struggle to find her body, an orange butterfly began flying around, Farrell Racette said. “I just really felt somehow that was her,” said Farrell Racette, a HO/ The Canadian Press professor of native studies at the A pair of moccasins tops are pictured in a handout photo from the “Walking With Our Sisters” exhibit. The pieces were University of Manitoba. She made a pair of vamps emcreated to honour missing and murdered native women. broidered with two orange buttermissing girls and women made her Association of Canada estimated flies to remember Nepinak. in 2010 that 582 aboriginal women feel helpless. She put a request out “That feeling of helplessness, that had been reported missing or mur- feeling of powerlessness, that feeling for donations of moccasin tops, or dered across Canada. More recent vamps, on social media and was that you can’t do anything – this research puts that total at 824. amazed by the response. gave us something to do,” she said. Although many have called for a “We continue to press forward and “It turned out a great number of national inquiry, the federal govern- we have a great deal of hope.” people feel exactly the same way I do,” she said last week as the exhibit ment has rejected the idea. Erin Konsmo, youth co-ordiThe exhibit’s focus is on honour- nator for the exhibit, said people opened in Winnipeg at the start of a ing those who have been lost, Belseven-year tour of North America. continue to contribute moccasin court said. Families who have lost a tops as the exhibit travels – a sign “I was getting 100 packages a day from the post office and it was very sister, mother, grandmother or aunt the issue continues to resonate with need more support, she said. overwhelming.” aboriginal communities across the “When a girl goes missing, The designs and messages on country. the tombstone-shaped vamps range the first reaction from the police “We are still losing our sisters services should not be to tell the from floral patterns and animals from our communities. We’re losing families that she probably ran away,” to heart-wrenching epitaphs. One mothers, aunties, grandmothBelcourt said. “We need to get away vamp depicts a beaded Ottawa ers, babies as well,” Konsmo said. from thinking that the women who police badge. Another simply says, have gone missing or who have been “This isn’t just a memorial for an “Mother, Sister, Friend, Daughter.” issue that has stopped. It’s one that murdered fit a certain category, Still another shows an empty continues. place setting with the words, “Clear- because they defy all categories. “There is still work for us to do.” “We need to just get in touch ing the table, her mom would hold The exhibit is scheduled to make with our own humanity, to underthe empty plate to her lips. A silent stops in Manitoba, Ontario and stand that if you are a parent and prayer for her daughter’s return.” Saskatchewan this year before going you lose a child, there is no greater The definitive number isn’t pain.” known, but the Native Women’s to the United States and Ottawa.
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Flu vaccine production issue may be behind last year’s modest protection: study an increase in reports of flu outbreaks in long-term care facilities where high numbers of residents TORONTO and staff had been vaccinated. he 2012-13 influenza season Something was amiss. was a harsh one, and one in Tests showed the reference which flu vaccine offered disapvirus selected by the WHO would pointingly modest protection have offered good protection against the main circulating against the viruses they were colstrain, H3N2. lecting from sick Canadians. But The limited protection – the same tests showed the H3N2 around 41 per cent for healthy component in the vaccine didn’t adults and a mere nine per cent mount that protection. for seniors – was surprising, given Skowronski described the realthat the H3N2 viruses causing ization that the problem related to illness were a close match for one an issue in production as an “Aha the World Health Organization moment.” had selected for inclusion in that “We were going down the winter’s vaccine. wrong path,” she said. New Canadian research is “It wasn’t antigenic drift” – offering an explanation for that the term used to describe small puzzling and unfortunate phechanges in circulating viruses. “It nomenon. It reveals that the was vaccine mutation.” H3N2 component that went into Most of the world’s flu vaccine the vaccine wasn’t exactly what supply is produced using a system the WHO’s experts ordered. where influenza viruses are grown The vaccine virus contained in hen’s eggs. In the process, the several mutations that appeared viruses have to adapt – acquire to have undercut its ability to some mutational changes – to generate antibodies that would grow in eggs. recognize and protect against the It’s been known for decades circulating H3N2 viruses, report- that that process has the poed the study, published Tuesday in tential to introduce mutations the journal PLoS One. that weaken the protection that “We were looking to nature. vaccine virus can offer. But what And it was in fact manufacturing, some people felt was a theoretical not nature, that explained the low problem is actually a current chalvaccine effectiveness,” Dr. Danuta lenge with the H3N2 component Skowronski, lead author of the of flu vaccine. new research, said in an interview (The same is true for vaccine about the findings. viruses grown in cell culture, Skowronski, an influenza exthough it is thought the risk of pert at the British Columbia Cen- adaptation introducing key mutatre for Disease Control, worked tions is lower in cell culture. And on the paper with more than a cell culture vaccines currently dozen scientists from a variety of make up only a fraction of the institutions across the country, global supply.) including the National MicrobiRichard Webby is a leading ology Laboratory in Winnipeg, influenza researcher and head of Quebec’s Public Health Institute, the WHO’s collaborating centre Public Health Ontario and several for influenza at St. Jude Children’s universities. Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. He She and her colleagues were takes part in the twice annual at a loss to explain why a vaccine WHO meetings when flu experts that looked like it should have recommend what should go into offered good protection wasn’t the northern and southern hemidoing so. In particular, they noted sphere flu vaccines. Canadian Press
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Webby said that committee has been aware of the problems with the H3N2 vaccine component. And in fact WHO reports issued after those twice annual meetings contain references to the problem – though few without advanced knowledge of microbiology would have been able to decode them. And Skowronski said many of the scientists and public health officials she’s presented her data to have been shocked to realize mutations could be introduced in the production process. Webby said this type of problem has occurred in the past, and resurfaced, in this case with H3N2 viruses, in 2011 when a new clade (sub-family) of the viruses emerged. They are known as Victoria-like viruses. (Flu virus clades are named after the place where they were first isolated by a laboratory.) “This batch of H3N2 viruses, for whatever reason, is difficult to isolate in eggs. They don’t grow well,” Webby explained. “And when you do get them growing well, obviously that’s because the virus has changed. And unfortunately with these Victoria-like … viruses, where they change to grow better in eggs is an antigenic site.” An antigenic site is a portion of a flu virus that would be visible to the immune system, and would be the target of antibodies generated by vaccine. If the sites in the vaccine virus differ from those seen on circulating viruses, the antibody response triggered by the vaccine would be weaker. Webby said since the problem became apparent, the handful of laboratories that produce vaccine viruses for the world’s flu vaccine manufacturers have been trying to come up with a H3N2 component that more closely hews to the Victoria clade viruses. The one currently being used is a second attempt, a Texas-like virus. “There have been intensive efforts to get something that’s bet-
ter. The Texas is a little bit better, but it’s still not perfect,” he said. The mismatch of the H3N2 vaccine virus didn’t have much impact in North America this winter, because almost all of the flu activity here this year was caused by the H1N1 strain. But if H3N2 plays a larger role next flu season, one could expect a repeat of the 2012-13 season, Skowronski warned. She suggested more work needs to be done to try to figure out if the adaptation process can be better controlled and to determine which mutations are likely to lead to lower vaccine effectiveness. And if the process can’t be improved? “If we can’t control that ultimately, well then we need to be advocating for a different approach than this egg-based
manufacturing we’ve had since the 1940s,” she said. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, has been a leading advocate for an overhaul of flu vaccine production approaches. He agreed that findings like these underscore the need for what he calls “21st century flu vaccines.” He praised Skowronski’s paper, saying it adds to the understanding of how flu vaccines work – or don’t. “While this phenomenon is not new, I think this is really the first time we’ve seen the direct relationship between sub-standard protection levels and the vaccine strain,” he said. “It’s information that is material for understanding how well these flu vaccines are working.”
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umbering about 1.5 million, wildebeests are the primary driver in the Serengeti ecosystem. Zoologist and UBC professor emeritus Anthony R.E. Sinclair calls the Serengeti national park and ecosystem “one of the seven natural wonders of the world.” At 21, Sinclair, a New Zealander, who was raised in eastern Africa, looked out across the region’s plains and realized that he wanted to study the system for the rest of his life. He hoped to understand the forces that maintained such great numbers of animals of so many species through the centuries. Sinclair will be speaking in Whitehorse and Haines Junction on Sunday and Monday. His talk, Understanding How Ecosystems Work: Comparing Serengeti with Yukon, will reveal the similarities and differences between the tropical plains system and a boreal system. The well-travelled zoologist has also spent decades studying the wonders of the Yukon, especially at the facility at Kluane Lake. He will present his answers to a question that has intrigued him throughout his life: “How do these systems stabilize?” “There has to be something that keeps them going,” says Sinclair. “Otherwise they’d all drift out of existence. There have to be processes that will keep things more or less as they are.” What do Yukon populations of such iconic creatures as caribou, moose and wolves have in common with wildebeests, lions and hyenas? What supports them? What threatens them? What roles do food supply, predator numbers and disease play in the health of populations? How do such forces function in the Serengeti system that supports 28 species of herbivores and 10 of carnivores? And how do they work in the boreal, which supports far fewer species? Then, says Sinclair, his talk will turn to historical impacts. He will explore events, which took place in the Yukon or East Africa a century or two centuries ago that are even now affecting these massive ecosystems. Sinclair has earned his perspective on ecosystems through a life of constant exploration. He has also witnessed a change in research technology and techniques over the same period. Aerial photography was just coming into its own in the mid-1960s when he was setting out
clair. What happens in these major ecosystems is “vitally important for human society and our future.” Sinclair presents a favourite analogy: Suppose you have found an individual young animal in distress. You would like to save and raise it, but unless you know what to feed it, your intentions count for nothing and it will die. “If you want to keep your ecosystems going, and I think we better … science is not there simply as an academic exercise.” With a burgeoning population of humans, it is more vital now than ever to understand the mechanisms of systems like the Serengeti and central Yukon. “Scientists sometimes get told to butt out,” says Sinclair. “But it’s not like we’re trying to say, ‘Stop industry from doing their thing.’” We’re just saying, ‘Don’t do it in 100 per cent of the area.’ We need to have reference points or baselines to tell us what is going on in our modified environment. “I’m not confrontational. I like to say, ‘I know where you’re coming from,’ but we need to work on these Photo by Anthony Sinclair things together as our insurance Numbering about 1.5 million, wildebeests are the primary driver in the Serengeti ecosystem. policy.” For more on all these and other Monitoring food supply by airon his professional path. estimates of numbers, but we’re aspects of Sinclair’s essential, Imagine standing on the ground getting better now.” And, of course, craft or satellite is not an option in exciting life’s work, read Serengeti in the Serengeti, urges Sinclair. Im- for smaller animals, such as rodents, much of the boreal. The tree canopy Story: Life and Science in the World’s agine a mass of wildebeest stretchboth in tropical systems and in the masks changes on the ground. “You Greatest Wildlife Region (Oxford ing in every direction, “nonstop have to get on the ground to see boreal, live trapping answers yet University Press) and attend his wildebeest as far as the eye can what’s going on there,” says Sinclair. talk March 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the more fundamental questions. see – It’s one huge plain of 2,000 Food supply is, not surprisingly, The four-by-four vehicle is still an Beringia Centre in Whitehorse or square kilometres. We fly back and a major driver in the health of eco- essential component of research March 31 at 7:30 p.m. at the Saint forth over it for hours and hours.” systems both in the Serengeti and in in the world’s two most iconic Elias Convention Centre in Haines Photographs are taken from about the boreal. Satellite imagery has be- ecosystems. Junction. 1,000 feet (300 metres). This column is co-ordinated by the YuDespite the efforts of certain come an essential tool for monitorSometimes, however, the kon Research Centre at Yukon College sectors to minimize such research, ing the tropical plains’ expansion scientists must count creatures in with major financial support from Enthere’s much more to all this field and contraction of huge swaths of the savannah portion of the park vironment Yukon and Yukon College. work and analysis than esthetic green. “Most of these animals feed The articles are archived at http:// where there are trees. Then they fly www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/research/pubat about 300 feet (90 metres). Such on grass, therefore we have to spend considerations or monitoring recreational opportunities, says Sinlications/newsletters_articles methods are not as practical or safe a lot of time measuring grass.” in much of the spruce-covered and mountainous boreal, nor do they work well when trying to study stealthy carnivores. That’s when the camera trap becomes essential. • PRESENTS Formerly the Golden Thimble • When you take an image of an animal, you’ve marked it and can later identify it. When this is done with a number of individual carnivores, then overall populations can be estimated. GPS (Global Positioning System) and GIS (geographic information systems) along with new methods of statistical analysis have made the Miles of Fabric to get Creative with! lot of a Serengeti zoologist somewhat easier than it was when Sinclair started out. “Prior to these new techniques we didn’t have very good
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Citizen scientists can help monarch butterflies by DAVID SUZUKI
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rom the age of five, Fred Urquhart was fascinated by monarch butterflies in his Toronto neighbourhood. Born in 1911, he spent hours watching the orange and black insects flutter about, wondering: Where did they go in winter? At school, he read voraciously about nature, especially monarchs and other insects. He eventually became a zoology professor and married Norah Patterson, who shared his love of butterflies, as did their son, Doug. To answer the question that had nagged
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mainly associated with largescale planting of corn and soy genetically modified to resist the herbicide Roundup, or glyphosate. It doesn’t kill crops – just pretty much everything else, including the milkweed monarchs need to lay their eggs and that is their caterpillars’ main food. We can only hope our leaders live up to their commitment, and we can speak up to hold them to it. But we can also become citizen scientists to help researchers better understand the butterfly’s breeding, migrating and overwintering cycles and help monarchs survive. Monarch Watch (monarchwatch.org) offers classroom resources, studentscientist research projects and information about building monarch way stations, raising your own monarchs and planting milkweed and butterfly gardens. The U.S. Monarch Joint Venture website (monarchjointventure.org/) offers resources for citizens to track migration, count butterflies and monitor larval populations and disease for monarchs – as well as other butterflies. The David Suzuki Foundation website also offers a range of resources and activities to help protect these pollinating insects. And, as part of its Homegrown National Park
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On the track of the wolverine by Ned Rozell
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s I skied on a frozen river, a hairy creature trotted toward me. When the wolverine spotted me, it popped up in the air like an antelope, landed like a cat, and bounced away into the high country of the Wrangell Mountains. Nicknamed the devil bear, woods devil or carcajou, the wolverine has a Latin name, Gulo gulo, that means “glutton.” The Koyukon Indians have a better name, “doyon,” from the Russian “toyon,” which means chief or great man. The few biologists who have studied wolverines in Alaska say they are exceptional creatures. “They’re hard-pushing animals, with a lot of perseverance. They’re on the go all the time,” said biologist Audrey Magoun, who studied wolverines in the Brooks Range for her 1985 Ph.D. thesis at the University of Alaska. “Wolverines have a weasel personality, only they’re about 30 times bigger.” Magoun said she loves to study wolverines because so little is known about them.
Legends of wolverines wrecking traps and trashing cabins are common, she said, but the actual events are rare because wolverines numbers are low, and they avoid people. Craig Gardner, an Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist who did graduate research on wolverines, found that only about five wolverines roamed every thousand square kilometres in southcentral Alaska where he did his research. “Take the wolf numbers in that area and divide by five, and you’ve got a pretty good estimate of the number of wolverines,” he said. Though Gardner has long wandered over the mountainous country that wolverines prefer, he’s only seen four from the ground. Magoun said the animals are so secretive she has a hard time finding wolverines even when she’s close to radiocollared animals. She’s not surprised to talk to old-timers who tell her they’ve never even seen a wolverine. Wolverines rarely hang out in the low country, Magoun said, which is why river travellers don’t often see them. The animals, particularly denning females, like to stay in mountainous terrain, where there’s a supply of longlasting snow for their dens. The high country also provides safety for newborn wolverines, and a good supply of food – ground squirrels and other small mammals. Wolverines also take a few caribou calves each year, Gardner said. But with its powerful
Magoun found that females roamed about 100 square kilometres, while the males covered from about 300-to-800 square kilometres. While that seems expansive, Magoun thinks it’s not much ground to cover for an animal that in large part feeds on animals others have killed. Myths of wolverine’s ferocity are based on fact, Magoun said. During her study in the Brooks Range, she caught wolverines in live traps that were made of steel and 11-gauge chain-link fence. The wolverines sometimes escaped the traps by chewing through the fencing. Gardner spends much of his time with caribou and wolves these days, but he still holds a special reverence for the creature he calls “Gulo.” “There’s not a more beautiful animal out there,” he said. “They’re my favorite beast in the world.”
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A wolverine track from upper Riley Creek in the Alaska Range.
neck and jaws, a wolverine is built to be a scavenger. “It’s not a great predator,” Gardner said. “It has to make a living other ways.” Gardner once tracked a wolverine to a snowdrift where he saw the animal remove four feet of snow, then ten centimeters of soil, to retrieve a golden eagle carcass. “He had to have put that eagle there in August or Sep-
tember, and he retrieved it in March,” he said. Magoun said wolverines catch a lot of ground squirrels in late summer and fall, then cache them. “Then they can be digging up ground squirrels all winter long,” she said. Though they look bigger, male wolverines only get to be about 35 pounds. Females are even smaller, averaging about 20 pounds. In her study,
Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.
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Yukon’s army without a war HISTORY
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hen the Klondike was discovered in 1896, the mounted police were overwhelmed by the influx of goldseekers over the next two years. Of the tens of thousands rushing to the Klondike, 80 per cent were American. By January of 1898, the police force in the Yukon had been increased from the original 22 men who were stationed in the territory at the time of discovery, to 232. But that wasn’t enough. Clifford Sifton, who was then Canada’s minister of the interior, stated: “We have before us the great danger of the authority of this government being over-ridden, being destroyed, and the government of that district being, theoretically, if not actually, taken out of our hands.” Consequently, on March 21, 1898, the Laurier government established, by order-in-council, a field force drawn from Canada’s regular army. This new unit, known as the Yukon Field Force, was sent with two purposes: to maintain sovereignty in a remote region of Canada, and “to provide as much aid to the civil power as the authorities might request to retain law and order.” Fort Selkirk was chosen as their headquarters because of its central location on the Yukon River. For a while, Selkirk was even considered as the future capital of the territory. The field force would be the most northerly force of soldiers located anywhere within the British empire. The force, ultimately numbering more than 200 men, departed Ottawa by train to much fanfare May 6 under the command of Lt.-Colonel Thomas D.B. Evans. With them were five women, including four recruits of the newly formed Victorian Order of Nurses: Margaret Payson, Amy Scott, Rachel Hanna, Georgia Powell and Faith Fenton, a journalist writing for the Toronto Globe. A minor crisis occurred in Wrangell, Alaska, prior to leaving for the “All-Canadian” route to the Klondike. Faith Fenton appeared in a A Bean North day is a good day.
call. Despite their efforts, some 40 buildings were destroyed in the heart of the downtown section, and it happened again in the spring. The men of the field force were also assigned guard duty at the mounted police barracks, as well as at the banks. They also went out to the gold fields to escort shipments of gold into town. “We have been sent out to the creeks,” wrote one of the enlisted men, “to help some poor fellows that were destitute. In lots of cases we have carried some poor fellows 12 and 15 miles to our own hospital and doctored and fed them and brought them back to health.” One less-than grateful American received such aid and in return stole $200 worth of mounted police provisions. That deed netted him seven years of hard labour. From the outset, the Americanbacked Klondike Nugget newspaper editorialized against the sending Yukon Archives, University of Washington photograph collection Between 1898 and 1900, as many as 100 members of the Yukon Field Force were stationed in of a military force to the Yukon in peacetime. Describing the force in Dawson City, where they performed various duties, including guarding gold shipments and one instance as “useless as a wart on fighting fires. Their primary purpose for being there was to protect Canadian sovereignty. a log,” the Nugget attacked the Liberal government for the expenditure of dress shortened for trail conditions, fell, and the Anglia could not return the coming winter. funds for such a detachment, even and without mandatory bloomers for the main party, by pre-arrangeThe men at Selkirk settled into taking opportunities to supply negaand gaiters. Fearing that the exposed ment, the remainder of the force pro- a mundane routine of picket duty, tive information to the opposition in ankles would corrupt the morals of ceeded on their own. On August 29, gathering firewood and other necesOttawa. the men, Colonel Evans demanded they left Camp Victoria, and arrived sary tasks during the short, cold winAs the population subsided, the this situation be rectified. With at Selkirk two weeks later, having ter days. It must have been tantalizing need for the field force diminished, quick trip to a fabric store, Fenton’s navigated Teslin Lake, as well as the to hear reports of the gilded mecca and in September of 1899, half of the hemline – and her reputation – were Teslin and Yukon Rivers. The flotilla now operating day and night to the force was sent home. By this time, restored. consisted of several smaller boats, north, close to the Arctic Circle. Anthe rabble-rousing Nugget conceded The field force arrived at Teleand four large barges, each capable of other 15 men were soon to find out that the departing soldiers had made graph Creek June 7. It was the inten- carrying 10-14 tonnes of supplies. what it was like. They were sent over a good impression on Dawson. Nine tion of the Canadian government to Among the supplies sent north the frozen Yukon River to Dawson men were left to caretake the facilities by-pass the complications of sending were Lee-Enfield rifles, each with 300 City just after Christmas, arriving in Fort Selkirk until May, 1900, when a Canadian military force through rounds of ammunition, two maxim January 2, 1899. The northern conAmerican territory via the Lynn guns with 25,000 rounds, and two tingent of the field force now became they rejoined the main garrison in Dawson. On June 27, all but one Canal (Skagway and Dyea), or up the “seven-pound field pieces” with 200 known as the Yukon Garrison. Yukon River. rounds. The food supplies included In Dawson, they found a city with member of the force departed for Ottawa aboard the steamer Columbian. The most stimulating part of 40,000 kilograms of tinned meat, the modern convenience of gas and The remaining soldier, Edward the two years spent by the force in 20,000 kilograms of hard tack biselectrical lighting and telephone. Lincoln, was detained in Dawson the Yukon was getting there. Havcuits, and 63,000 kilograms of flour. Amid the stump-filled dirt streets until he could give testimony at the ing overcome logistical problems At Selkirk, 50 men were sent of Dawson, theatres and dance halls infamous O’Brien murder trial the (finding enough packhorses to haul forward to Dawson City, arriving operated from 7 each evening until following year. Having done that, he the supplies for the force) and 250 October 1 on the steamer Gold Star, 8 or 9 in the morning. Saloons were left Dawson July 31, 1901, the last kilometres of wilderness trail, they while the remainder of the soldiers operating around the clock, six days member of the Yukon Field Force to established a temporary post on Tes- set about establishing a complex of a week. leave the territory. lin Lake named Camp Victoria, while buildings around a quadrangle at While the soldiers at Fort Selkirk Michael Gates is a Yukon historian an advance party proceeded to Fort the lower end of Fort Selkirk. The were leading a dull existence, quite and sometimes adventurer based in Selkirk aboard the small steam vessel men kept busy moving the supplies a the opposite was true for the men Whitehorse. His new book, Dalton’s Anglia to establish the permanent kilometre to their camp, constructing posted in Dawson. In mid-October, Gold Rush Trail, is now available in garrison. the buildings, and collecting enough they were awakened early one morstores. 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Moms in kids’ play group have different views on illness him to the group if he truly seems sick (fever, listlessness, etc.) I am starting to think that the socialization isn’t worth the stress, and while my child by Judith enjoys the meetings, I doubt he would actually miss them at this Martin age, especially if I substituted another interesting activity. The below note was my husband’s idea: “All: Mike has allergies. DEAR MISS MANNERS: Perhaps sometimes he also has I joined a local mothers’ club mild colds. I say mild, because when my son (now 16 months he doesn’t get fevers, and Dave old) was 3 months old, and and I never have any symptoms formed a new play group with that point to it being something a few other women and their contagious. children. We take turns host“That being said, Mike does ing the weekly meeting in our go to day care and may pick homes and providing lunch for up things there. He goes to the the group. playroom at the gym and plays Sometimes I wonder if I with other kids that we know. would have made friends with From what we have read and any of these ladies otherwise. what our doctor says, we think We are thrown together because it is important for young chilour children are of similar ages, dren to get exposed to lots of but this fact alone is not enough other kids, as it helps them deto overcome all differences. velop a strong immune system, The other mothers are drivso we are not going to change. ing me crazy blaming all of “Mike sleeps about 10 hours their children’s illnesses on my a night and only naps after a lot son. I grew up with allergies, of activity, so he does not seem and if I thought every runny/ to be hampered by his regular stuffy nose portended illness, runny nose. If he had a fever or I would never leave the house. showed other signs of actually Also, I have read that exposure fighting some sort of infection, to colds at this age helps kids we would act appropriately. build immunity so they don’t “Obviously, this is not comget sick as often when they start patible with the play group, so going to school. I don’t bring Mike will be dropping out. We
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Top, Dahria Beatty stretches for the line in the junior women’s 20-kilometre classic race at the Haywood Ski Nationals in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Bottom, Yukon’s Emily Nishikawa races in the open women’s sprint qualifier. The Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club placed second in the country with 19 medals.
he biggest week of the year for Yukon skiers was also its best. Historic, is another word that pops to mind. Not only did the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club tie its previous best finish with second place in the club aggregate standings, it accumulated more hardware than it has in its history at the Haywood Ski Nationals last week in Corner Brook, NL. “It was kind of a magical week with everything coming together and everyone racing well at the same time, which doesn’t happen too often,” said Yukon Ski Team head coach Alain Masson. “It was amazing. “It was great for the kids. A lot of the young ones won medals as well as our more established ones. It was good all the way around.” The Whitehorse club placed second out of 59 clubs to tie its previous best from 2007 and 2012. It was runner-up to the defending champs, Nakkertok club of Ottawa, which had about 60 skiers competing. “It’s a real challenge to compete with them because I think we have a total of 17 athletes,” said Masson. “(Nakkertok) is one of the largest racing clubs in Canada. It’s a huge club and they’ve won four or five years in a row now.” Whitehorse skiers raced to 19 medals, two more than the club’s previous best set at the 2007 nationals. The Whitehorse club also set a personal best of 10 different skiers taking home hardware and a total of 32 top-10 finishes, set by 12 skiers across five age-groups. “We just had more of our athletes racing well the same week, which is the difference,” said Masson. “For all of our athletes to be racing well that week is pretty rare … Near the end of the season athletes are tired or sick or not in the best of shape. Last year Emily (Nishikawa) did one race and was far back, and was very tired at the end of the season. “Also, I think when there’s success on the team early on, it rubs off on the other ones. Gives everybody self-confidence … everybody has a positive attitude.” Whitehorse’s Dahria Beatty had the largest haul of the Yukon skiers and set her own personal bests. The 20-year-old, who is skiing in her final season as a junior, won five medals en route to taking first place in the junior women aggregate standings. It’s the first time she’s won medals in every event she raced and the most medals she’s won at a nationals. “I really wanted to go out of the junior category as the aggregate winner, that was a goal of mine going into the week,” said Beatty. “I was really happy to accomplish that.” Beatty, a member of the national junior team, captured three gold medals at nationals for her first time, winning in the five-kilometre classic, the 20-kilometre classic mass start, and in the classic team sprint with Whitehorse Olympian Emily Nishkawa. Beatty also took silver in the 10-kilometre skate and bronze
in the sprint. The five-kilometre classic “stands out the most, not because I won the junior category, but because I was fifth in the open that day and I was only beaten by Olympians,” said Beatty. “I was only three seconds behind one of our world cup athletes and it was my best open result at nationals.” The Nishikawa siblings, fresh from the Sochi Games, won three medals each. Emily Nishikawa won gold in the five-kilometre classic, silver in the 30-kilometre classic, and the gold with Beatty in the team sprint. She placed second in aggregate open women. Emily was the first Yukon cross-country skier to compete at the Olympics since 1992. She led the Canadian team in two races in Sochi, topping out with a 42nd place finish in the 15-kilometre skiathlon. Graham Nishikawa, who was in Sochi as a guide for gold medalist Brian McKeever at the Paralympics, took gold in the skate sprint, silver in the 15-kilometre skate and bronze in the 50-kilometre classic in Corner Brook. Those results put him second in the aggregate standings for open men. Whitehorse’s Knute Johnsgaard took three medals at the Haywood with silver in the skate sprint, bronze in the 10-kilometre classic and team sprint with Whitehorse’s Colin Abbott. Johnsgaard, who is finishing his first season in U23, took fourth in the aggregate standings for open men and first in U23 men. Annah Hanthorn was another three-medal winner last week with bronze in the five-kilometre classic, the 20-kilometre mass start and the team sprint with Whitehorse’s Kendra Murray. Murray placed third overall in the U23 women’s aggregate standings. Hanthorn is just finishing her first season on the Whitehorse club, having moved from Fort McPherson, N.W.T., during the off-season. “Now she lives in Whitehorse and trains with us and she did amazing,” said Masson. Other Whitehorse medalists include Caelan Mclean with gold in the 15-kilometre classic, taking third in junior boys aggregate; Simon Cash with a silver in the 10-kilometre classic for juvenile boys; and Hannah Deuling with silver in the 7.5-kilometre classic, finishing fifth in juvenile girls aggregate standings. “It was a great nationals for the whole team,” said Beatty. “It was really exciting to see some of the young skiers doing well, as well as the everyone else who has performed before at nationals. It was a great week for us.” Yukon athletes also won two ulu medals in cross-country skiing at the Arctic Winter Games last week in Fairbanks, Alaska. Hannah Jirousek won Yukon’s first medal of the Games with a bronze in the five-kilometre freestyle for midget female on March 17. Yukon then won another bronze in the 3x3-kilometre freestyle relay last Friday on the final day of competition in cross-country. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Melvin-McNutt rides to fifth at his first nationals Tom Patrick
Melvin-McNutt. There were no Canadian Shield events and just a few B.C. Snowboard Association events, in which MelvinMcNutt placed third in one. He also competed in the Showcase Showdown amateur/pro event in Whistler a couple weeks ago. Melvin-McNutt took 10th place in a big air comp in Showcase in the pro-male division out of 24 riders. “I fell on my last run,” said Melvin-McNutt. “It was really bad speed for the jump and I just came up short. But I got a 10th in that one, so that was pretty good.” Melvin-McNutt, who won Yukon’s skateboarding championships the last three years, will vie for a spot on Canada’s development team at an event at Sun Peaks, B.C., this weekend.
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ax Melvin-McNutt’s first national championship came long after it should have. Free of broken bones this time around, the Whitehorse snowboarder made his first nationals a good one. Melvin-McNutt rode to fifth at the Canadian Freestyle Snowboard Championships at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alta., on Saturday. “I’m stoked,” said the 19-year-old. “Fifth in Canada is good.” Good – some might say great. Melvin-McNutt took fifth in men’s slopestyle out of 27 of Canada’s best, including members of Canada’s national team. His better of two runs included a gap to lip-slide over the closeout rail into his run, hitting a boardslide pretzel 270 out of the rails. He launched into a double-cork 900 on the first jump and a backside 900 on the second. He finished with a switch lip-slide on the last rail. He was the only boarder in the final doing double-corks. “I think my scoring should have been a bit higher for that,” said Melvin-McNutt. Three seasons ago Melvin-McNutt became the first Yukoner to make the B.C. Freestyle Snowboard Team. In his first two seasons with the team he racked up some fantastic results before a broken collarbone
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Whitehorse’s Max Melvin-McNutt competes at the Canadian Freestyle Snowboard Champtionships in Calgary on Saturday. Melvin-McNutt took fifth place in the slopestyle event.
took him out of action both seasons, causing him to miss the nationals both years. Last season he took first in consecutive B.C. Snowboard Provincial Series Slopestyle competitions at Sun Peaks. However, the B.C. team dissolved during this past off-season due to a lack of funding and Melvin-McNutt spent this season going it alone in Whistler, B.C. “There weren’t many contests this year, partly because of the Olympics, partly because corporate sponsors weren’t sponsoring events,” said
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Mustangs teams held to one win each at B.C. championships
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Whitehorse Midget Mustangs defenceman Linsey Eby handles the puck from her team’s zone at the championships in 100 Mile House.
goals from Ryan Troke and Johnny Elias with two. The Mustangs fell 8-4 to Terrace, Kevin Mills/Nelson Star the eventual bronze winner, in Game Whitehorse Peewee Mustangs defenceman Kyle Schwantz clears the puck in a game 2. Whitehorse’s Bryce Anderson had a during the B.C. Provincial Hockey Championships in Nelson. Three Whitehorse teams goal and assist in the game. were held to one win each at the championships. The Mustangs bounced back in a 9-0 win over hosts West Kelowna. Jesse Tom Patrick Each Whitehorse rep team was Whitehorse teams. McCuaid and Kaine Comin each had News Reporter The bantams went 1-2-1 at the held to one win at the Tier 3 chamtwo goals and an assist for Whitehorse. championship in West Kelowna. pionships held in various locations Matthew Cooper, Elias and Joe he Whitehorse Mustangs produced across B.C. None of the three made the Mustangs head coach Martin Law- Stokes scored for the Mustangs in the rie said it was “disappointing in terms 5-3 loss to Alberni Valley. three wins at the B.C. Provincial playoffs. of not making it to the playoff round, Hockey Championships last week. The Norcope Bantam Mustangs “The other thing that is really we definitely had a club strong enough encouraging is we have at least nine Unfortunately, that was the grand total came back with the best record – to make it to the playoffs. We dropped kids coming back to play bantam between the three Whitehorse teams securing a win and a tie – and the that last game to Alberni Valley 5-3 on again next year from this team, so we competing. most balanced scores of the three an empty-net goal, which was a must- likely had the youngest team there,” win to make it to the playoffs, and I said Lawrie. think we out-shot them 39-25. We just The Peewee A Mustangs finished in couldn’t find the back of the net. the dark. Literally. “The result was disappointing, but Their last game was called when a All builders are invited as far as how the kids played and the power outage killed the rink’s lights as to attend the following: effort, definitely not disappointing. It Whitehorse trailed 3-2 to the hosting was nice to see how competitive we Nelson team with 12 minutes left in 8 a.m. – 10 a.m. were.” regulation. Unable to get the lights Westmark Whitehorse The Bantam Mustangs opened with back on, Nelson was awarded the win. Conference Room a 3-3 tie against Sunshine Coast, who “We were losing 3-2, but we were finished fourth at the championship. starting to gain a bit of momentum,” Friday, April 4, 2014 (revised date) Whitehorse got on the board with said Mustangs head coach Kirk Gale.
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“It was quite odd. I’ve never had that happen before.” The Peewee Mustangs finished with a 1-4-0 record. Whitehorse opened with an 8-3 win over Quesnel, who went winless at the championships. Isaac Williamson had five goals for the Mustangs. Then Mustangs then lost 7-0 to South Okanagan, who took third, and 5-2 to Vanderhoof. “We didn’t compete as well as we could and lost that game there,” said Gale. “The next game against Vanderhoof, we should have beat that team, but we again got behind the eight ball and couldn’t get back.” The Mustangs finished up the tournament with an 8-2 loss to Dawson Creek, who placed fourth, before the truncated game against Nelson. The Midget A Mustangs went 1-3-0 at the Tier 3 midget championship at 100 Mile House. They opened with a 4-2 win over Aldergrove before a 6-3 loss to Cranbrook the same day. Whitehorse then lost 9-1 to Quesnel, who took bronze, and 7-0 to South Okanagan to finish the tournament. A Midget A Mustangs representative could not be reached by press time. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Yukon boys clinch basketball bronze Tom Patrick News Reporter
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA he bronze medal game in junior male basketball at the Arctic Winter Games was like a gold medal game to the teams playing. Intensity rose with every basket, emotional strain was visible on the players’ faces, and at the end there was elation on one side and heartbreak on the other. “It felt like a gold medal game,” said Yukon head coach Tim Brady. “It was pressure packed, it was intense, it had all those elements of a championship game.” Yukon took the bronze with an 89-84 win over Nunavut last Friday. As excited as Yukon was to win, they remained relatively composed after the final buzzer. Both squads have players who are teammates on the pan-territorial men’s basketball team that trains together during the summer. “We know most of those young men over there through our allterritory camp. Two of them stayed with us this July and lived with us, played on our all-territory team, so we know all these boys. So it’s elation, it’s disappointment,” said Brady, who had Nunavut players stop by to offer congratulations after the medal ceremony. “We tried to be modest in the acceptance of this medal because we’ve been on that end before, we know how that is.” “We’re good friends with them so we’re also sad to see them that way,” said Yukon co-captain Chris Carino. “All we can do now is be modest with our win and help them keep their heads up.” Adding to Nunavut’s disappointment was the loss of a couple sizable leads during the game. Nunavut was up by nine points with six minutes left in the fourth and was still up by seven with three minutes left on the clock. Yukon began to close the gap when Carino sunk three threepointers. Co-captain Bryan Hermosa pulled his team within one with a basket and drained two free throws to put Yukon up 85-84. Yukon’s Josh Tobias then made a steal in the final minute and capitalized on it with a basket. RJ Siosan drove to the rim with under 20 seconds left to bring it to the final score. “In the fourth quarter we stayed composed as a team, we fought back, hit a couple threes, we did some smart plays,” said Carino. “Bryan made some smart passes and RJ nailed the pin in the coffin. That sealed the deal for us.” Nunavut also had an eight-point lead in the first quarter at 16-8 before slipping behind 30-28 at half. Siosan led the team with 30 points in the bronze game. Carino had 21, Hermosa 20 and Tobias 12, including two third-quarter threepointers. Carino was fourth in scoring in the tournament with 108, six points up from Siosan in fifth. Hermosa wrapped up with 73
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Yukon co-captain Bryan Hermosa goes for a jump shot during the bronze medal game at the Arctic Winter Games in Fairbanks, Alaska, last Friday. Yukon defeated Nunavut 89-84 for the bronze.
points for eighth overall in the tournament. Tobias was fourth on the team with 60. “I feel great. This game was like a gold medal game for me,” said Hermosa. “This team is awesome. I couldn’t have asked for a better team.” “It’s a privilege to be here,” he added. “Being part of Arctic Winter Games two times, I feel awesome for that, being able to participate and being able to compete with the top athletes around the Arctic.” Yukon finished third out of five teams in the round-robin with a 2-2 record.
They lost 79-78 in their first game with a buzzer-beater from Alaska. Yukon squeaked out a 75-73 win over Nunavut with Ian New draining a pair of free throws to put Yukon up in the end. Yukon lost 75-57 to Northwest Territories, who went on to take gold with an 88-77 win over Alaska in the final. The Yukon squad dominated Greenland 91-19 to end the roundrobin. Yukon was the defending gold medalist in both junior male and junior female divisions.
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Nunavut takes bronze as Yukon loses steam Tom Patrick
Team Yukon placed fourth out of four teams with a 62-37 loss to Nunavut in the bronze medal FAIRBANKS, ALASKA game in junior female basketball he battle for bronze between at the Arctic Winter Games last Yukon and Nunavut was as Friday. tight as a snare drum in the first “We ran out of gas and couldn’t quarter. After that, not so much. compete in the third quarter,” News Reporter
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said Yukon head coach Nicole Schroeder. “Everything that was working for us in the first two quarters wasn’t there in the third. “In the fourth we came back, battled, but by that point they were ahead by too much.” Yukon went basket-for-basket up to 14-14 before a 10-point run by Nunavut. Yukon captain Quynh Nguyen ended the Nunavut run with a layup to make it 24-16. The 10-point run was still visible at half with Yukon down 31-21. The young Yukon squad, with two 13-year-olds and a 14-yearold playing in the U18 tournament, went winless in the tournament. “We did what we could, we hustled hard, but in the end we’re still a very young team so our skill-set isn’t there yet,” said Nguyen. “We’ll be a good team in a couple years. “I feel like we start to lose focus after half time.” Nguyen led the team in the game and the tournament with 12 points in the bronze game and 43 at the Games. Teammates Jacy Sam, Galena Roots and Jayden Demchuk each had six points in the game. Sam was second on the team for scoring in Fairbanks with 31 points. Nguyen, Sam and Roots all played on Yukon’s gold winning team from the 2012 Arctic Games in Whitehorse. “Our girls demonstrated a lot of heart, a lot of hustle, throughout the entire tournament,” said Schroeder. “We’re definitely the younger team here. They still competed. They made other teams’ lives difficult on the court, they played hard, played strong, and did all the little things. I couldn’t be more proud of them. “It was never an easy game against us and that was our goal.” Alaska dunked Northwest Territories 73-49 on Saturday for the gold medal. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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FAIRBANKS, ALASKA ukon winning big in traditional events at the Arctic Winter Games has become, well, tradition. Yukon athletes won seven medals in arctic sports and 10 ulus in Dene games in Fairbanks last week. The territory’s very first gold medal of the Games came in arctic sports. Robyn Poulter leapt to gold in the kneel jump in junior female. “I’m just so excited,” said Poulter shortly after the win. “This is the one thing that if I were to medal, this would be the one I’d medal in. I didn’t expect gold, but it’s a great surprise.” Poulter, who turned 15 the next day, jumped 102.9 centimetres to take gold. Fayne O’Donovan won silver in the onefoot high kick, and Tom Patrick/Yukon News bronze in the triple Yukon’s Andrew Crist competes in the sledge jump in arctic sports at the jump and the arm Arctic Winter Games last Friday in Fairbanks, Alaska. Yukon won seven pull, to win silver all-around in junior medals in arctic sports and 10 in Dene games. Got any female. Tips? male and open male, and bronze BrittneySports Brown threw to O’Donovan, who is a mulin juvenile female. bronze in the snow snake for siltiple-time Yukon gymnastics Anthony Primozic took gold ver all-around in junior female. champion, also took fourth in in the snow snake on his way to Jedrek Dendys won bronze in the two-foot high-kick. bronze in all around junior male snow snake for junior male and Matthew Jacobson took Doronn Fox took gold in Justin Smith did the same in bronze in the head pull for snow snake in open male open male. open male. for the second Arctic Games Contact Tom Patrick at Reena Coyne completed 110 in a row. tomp@yukon-news.com jumps to take bronze in the sledge jump in junior female. Hand games and snow snake Got any Got any were good to Yukon last week. Sports Tips? Yukon grabbed three medSports Tips? alsemail:tomp@yukon-news.com in hand games in the Dene email:tomp@yukon-news.com email:tomp@yukon-news.com Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Students events with gold in junior fe-
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Atom Mustangs stage huge comeback for gold Tom Patrick
that’s the biggest thing. Leaving individual plays aside and doing what it took to win the own 4-0, the game half game. over, with a trophy on “Shooting everything at the the line and the Atom Jr. net, crashing the net, finding Mustangs were only getting the open man. It came down started. to not playing selfishly.” The Whitehorse rep team Whitehorse punched their scored five straight goals, to ticket for the final with a 2-0 take five straight games, to win win over Vancouver Minor, gold at the Richmond Minor with goals from Landon Hockey Association’s Spring Marsh and Huss Breithaupt, in Tournament in B.C. on March the semifinal. 18. The Mustangs lost their first The Mustangs won the game of the tournament 4-1 Tier 2 tournament in a 5-4 to Victoria with a half-dozen win over the Victoria Racquet Whitehorse shots hitting the Club. post. Hardie scored off a pass Rotten luck and a little from Hugo Burgess. over-confidence might have Then the win streak kicked helped put them in the 4-0 in as Whitehorse went 3-2 predicament by midway over Vancouver with Fordham through the second period. putting in two and Hardie “It’s one of those things racking up three assists. where it didn’t matter how Whitehorse then beat Richwell prepared we were, everymond 3-1 with a Schultz goal thing went Victoria’s way and North Delta 5-0 with two for the first period,” said Copper Tom Tom/ Yukon News goals from Joshua Schenk. Mustangs head coach Patrice Richmond marked the third Whitehorse Atom Mustangs’ Errol Ekholm, left, takes a faceoff during the Sprint Tournament Brunet. “Pucks were squeeztournament win for the Atom in Richmond B.C. The Mustangs took gold with a big comeback performance in the final. ing by and finding holes. So it Jr. Mustangs this season. wasn’t necessarily that we had Jirousek eroded Victoria’s lead There were plenty of ticks goalie Naoise Dempsey secure They first won the Whitea terrible start. with goals. Fordham and Har- left in the clock at that point. the win. Dempsey logged two horse International Atom “We might have been a little die also logged assists. With a Mustang in the box shutouts in the tournament. Hockey Tournament in front overly confident coming into Mustangs’ Joey Shultz got and Victoria’s goalie pulled, “They really turned it of the home crowd in Novemthe final, having won by this the game-winner, burning Whitehorse fought off a around in the second period ber and then the Yukon Peepoint four in a row.” down the wing and sending a 6-on-4 attack for the final two and really came together as wee Hockey Championships Whitehorse’s Joshua screaming wrist shot upstairs minutes. a team,” said Brunet. “Pullin Watson Lake in January. Schenk, Piper Fordham, for the win with three minutes Cole Cowan went down to ing together, supporting each Contact Tom Patrick at Jayden Hardie and Sasha in regulation. block a shot, helping Mustangs other – and playing together, tomp@yukon-news.com News Reporter
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Sudoku Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.
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To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues and below the line are down clues. Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction. No difit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.
WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: containing or resembling grit
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WORD SCRAMBLE CLUES ACROSS 1. Lawyer disqualification 7. Filled in harbor 13. Die 14. Expected 16. As in 17. Squares puzzle 19. Of I 20. Small depressions 22. Cambridgeshire Cathedral 23. Layout and furnishings 25. Sandhill crane genus 26. Challenges 28. A widow’s self-immolation 29. Earth System Model (abbr.)
30. Sound unit 31. A teasing remark 33. Surrounded by 34. Distinctive elegance 36. Imperturbable 38. Gulf of, in the Aegean 40. Ice mountains 41. Rubs out 43. German writer Weber 44. Tub 45. Digital audiotape 47. UC Berkeley 48. Actress Farrow 51. Epic body of poetry
53. Weight unit 55. A mild oath 56. More infrequent 58. One point N of due W 59. More rational 60. Exclamation of surprise 61. Manual soil tiller 64. 24th state 65. Surveyor 67. About ground 69. Something beyond doubt 70. Add herbs or spices
18. Single Lens Reflex (abbr.) 21. Integer 24. Photographers 26. Lair 27. Female sibling 30. Supported a structure 32. German socialist August 35. Angeles, Alomos or Lobos 37. Ripe tomato color 38. Indefinite small number 39. Wind River Res. peoples 42. A baglike structure 43. Flying mammal 46. In poor taste
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CLUES DOWN 1. Shelves 2. Max. medical unit 3. Religious orders 4. Blocks 5. Volcanic mountain in Japan 6. Close again 7. Clemens hero 8. ___-Jima 9. Rendered hog fat 10. Ocean ebbs 11. Spielberg blockbuster 12. Grade reducing 13. Shirk 15. Treats with contempt
Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: to divide by or as if by a cutting blow : split
Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: by force of circumstances
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WATSON LAKE, 2,900 sq ft, 100% finished 4-bdrm office/home on 1/2 acre fenced private lot, for less than $1,300/mon own, build equity & investment. 536-2234 for info, lv msg CARCROSS, 4-BDRM house, fenced yard, all amenities, new roof, hot water tank, windows, etc, only 45 mins from town, good deal at $229,000. 867-821-4924 MOUNTAINVIEW, 3-BDRM mobile home, 2 bathrooms, one is ensuite, skylight in kitchen, 47ʼ deck with view, fenced yard, shed, no pad fees, $249,000. 393-2291 1989 MOBILE home in Northland, large yard, corner lot. 335-6678 HANDYMAN SPECIAL, 76ʼx150ʼ lot on Oak St, PC, 1,000ʼ per floor, Feb. 14 new boiler/wood stove heat, $250,000 obo. 633-4259
Help Wanted Gold Village Chinese Restaurant Looking for experienced full-time kitchen helper and server Apply with resume to 401 Craig Street, Dawson City, YT Y0B 1G0 Fax resume to: 867-993-2336 DAWSON CITY Looking for an experienced cook for exclusive Greek cuisine restaurant For more information contact Tony Dovas 867-993-5868 CANADIAN LYNDEN TRANSPORT Looking for Class 1 drivers with superb experience Please e-mail resume to abjork@lynden.com or Fax 867-668-3196 Phone: 668-3198 FULL TIME DENTAL ASSISTANT REQUIRED Full Time Assistant required immediately for Pine Dental. Experience required. Please fax resume to 867-668-5121 or drop off at clinic at 101-204 Black St.
DOWNTOWN DAYS CHILDCARE CENTRE Looking for an early childhood caregiver Training in early childhood or a related field required This position is 9:00am-5:30pm, Monday to Fridays Wage dependent on training and experience Call 667-6776, Echo or Lynda, for further information Resumes may be dropped off at 478 Range Road, faxed to 667-6736 or emailed to rustic@northwestel.net Amber Enterprises is looking for: CAMPGROUND ACCOMMODATION ATTENDANTS, NOC #6435 May till Nov, full time, shift work. Requirements: Front desk customer service, accommodation registration, barista, and office staff Must speak English with a second language preferred (German, French, Spanish) Contact: rsc@klondiker.com Apply with cover letter, resume, and references. Amber Enterprises is looking for: SEASONAL LIVE-IN ONSITE CAMPGROUND OFFICE MANAGER NOC #0632 $12.50 per hour. May till Oct, full time, shift work. Requirements: Accommodation Registration Management, Payroll, Scheduling, Staffing, Customer Service Must speak English and also have one of the following: German, Spanish or French Contact: rsc@klondiker.com Apply with cover letter, resume, and references.
BETTER BID NORTH AUCTIONS Foreclosure, bankruptcy De-junking, down-sizing Estate sales. Specializing in estate clean-up & buy-outs. The best way to deal with your concerns. Free, no obligation consultation. 333-0717
ACMG HikinG BACkpACkinG SnowSHoeinG Guide Duties: • Safe Outdoor guiding with interpretation, transporting, emergency procedure, cooking at camp.
We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, cameras, furniture, antiques, artwork, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, vehicles & ATVs. G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS
Wage: • $18.95 / hr, Permanent position • Full time position (min. of 35 hrs / week) • WCB, Staff Accommodation Job Location: • Whitehorse, Dawson City, Haines J. area requirements: Skills and certification requirements: • Must speak and write in English • ACMG Hiking certification • Valid wilderness First Aid (80 hrs) • Previous guiding experience 1 yr to less than 2 yrs.
ALPINESTARS MOTORCROSS boots, Size 12, bought at Yukon Yamaha, hardly used. 660-5101 WORLD HOCKEY Association – 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. 633-3154
consiDer as an asset: • Japanese speaking skill. • Local guiding knowledge / Good fitness level YM Tours LTd o/A Yamnuska Mountain Tours Box 31112 Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A5P7 job2@yamnuskaguides.com
THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. 633-3154 TRADING CARDS, binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $50. 633-3154
Miscellaneous for Sale
WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154
NIKON 401X Autofocus Camera for slides/prints, 90 mm Lens with Nikon adaptors, lg Lowepro Camera bag, $50, Slik tripod, $50. 660-5101
CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards, serious inquiries. $1,500. 633-3154
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Please submit resume to: LAURA CABOTT #101-2131 2nd Avenue Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1C3 Ph: (867)456-3100 Fax: (867) 456-7093 Email: laura.cabott@northwestel.net
JOB OPPORTUNIT Y Daylu Dena Council is seeking applications for the position of
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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For Sale by Owner – $292,000
Entrance level has bedroom/office, master bedroom with his/her closets, bathroom, large utility room with washer and dryer and entrance to basement storage area. Upper level has bright spacious combined living/dining area with BBQ balcony, sumptuous kitchen, stainless appliances, pantry, bedroom and bathroom. Virtually soundproof. Call 633-3126 or e-mail tlaw@northwestel.net for more pictures/info or to view.
The firm of Cabott & Cabott requires an experienced Administrative Assistant.
The Executive Director will ensure that the Band Programs meet all government legislation and Band policies. As well, must maintain a professional code of conduct, integrity and sound judgment and be knowledgeable about the socioeconomic issues facing First Nations.
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Daylu Dena Council is currently recruiting a full time dynamic, energetic, self-motivated and professional Executive Director located at Lower Post B.C. on a full time basis. He/she Works under the support and supervision provided by the Chief and Council. The Executive Director will be involved in financial and strategic planning and implementation, overseeing daily operations of the band administration, and reporting to funding agencies.
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River’s Reach
Overlooking the famous Yukon River, these condos are close to all the things that matter to us Yukoners: The famous Millennium Trail, walking distance to the downtown core and shopping. This third-floor corner unit has it all... two bedrooms and a den, the master having a huge walk-in closet and an en suite with separate tub and glass shower
Hardwood and ceramic floors throughout, stainless steel appliances, solid doors and a wall of windows with beautiful natural views. Gorgeous open concept living/dining area with fireplace... it’s all custom throughout, including a custom office built right into the den area. Generously sized deck with propane plumbed in for your BBQ. This unit comes with two parking stalls, one above ground, one in the heated underground garage. Please call 867-334-1234 to book your appointment to view this exceptional space...priced at $549,000.
Strong leadership and communication skills are required as the Executive Director will work with 11 Programs in developing and delivering services to ensure that needs of the Membership are met in a timely and efficient manner.
Skills Required: Minimum Qualifications: • A University Degree in Public Administration or related field. • Leadership effectiveness, minimum 5 years experience at a senior management level working with a First Nations organization, and knowledge of First Nations governance. Ability to manage 15+ staff. • Excellent written and oral communications skills • Proficiency in computer software programs and technology • Ability to plan, develop and manage programs • Experience in financial management, budgeting and reporting • Experience in Proposal Writing and knowledge of funding sources • Must be bondable • Able to Multi-Task and work in a fast paced environment • Strong technical skills and ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team. • Valid Driver’s Licence and Reliable Vehicle. • Criminal records check Required Skills and Knowledge: • Public speaking skills along with team leadership, management skills, and social awareness • Strategic Planning skills and Time Management Skills • Thorough knowledge of all federal, provincial, and other funding sources and reporting requirements • General knowledge of the culture, values and traditions of the Kaska Dena is an asset. Benefits and Other Information: Salary and Remunerations: We offer a respectful, and progressive work environment, a competitive salary, and an above average benefits package. Application Instructions: Please submit your application with a cover letter, updated resume, copy of certification and 3 current references to: Denelle Spencer Phone: (250) 779-3161-2304 ext.248 or Email: executivedirector@dayludenacouncil.com CLOSING DATE: MARCH 31, 2014
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HONDA GENERATOR, needs some work; Yamaha generator, needs a fuel tank. 633-3116 or 334-3160
20 IAN Rankin paperback novels (John Rebus detective), all in good cond, $25. 633-3154
MCDONALDS H O C K E Y cards from 1991-92 to 2009/10. Almost every card issued minus some short prints, incl. 27 unopened paks/yr. Over 1,200 cards, $1,000 firm. 633-3154.
DOWN SLEEPING bag, older but plenty warm, $40. 660-5101 NEW ENVIROLET compost toilet, waterless, includes ducting, $2,200 obo. 633-6502
General Laborers, Equipment Operators, and Tradesmen of all disciplines JDS is a dynamic team focused on delivering quality engineering, procurement construction management solutions, permitting, community and First Nations relations, aviation services, heavy equipment leasing, project evaluation, mine and plant design, transport solutions, open pit and underground mining operations, locally, and internationally. From diamond mines to aviation services and more, our work transcends borders. We specialize in taking projects from the early conceptual vision, right through to the various stages of planning and development. We thrive on challenges and take pride in delivering on time, on budget and without harm. JDS is seeking general laborers, equipment operators, and tradesmen of all disciplines to assist in the dismantling of the Sa Dena Hes concentrator North of Watson Lake. Project to begin May 1st and continue through the summer. Please submit your resume in confidence to hr@jdsmining.ca and specify “SA DENA HES” in the subject header.
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YAMAHA EF4600DX generator, both 120 & 240 volt, economy (auto) idle, low oil alert, 21lt fuel tank, good cond, $1,500 obo. 332-2113 :) = full woodshed. Super-dry straight-grained lodgepole pine, $190/cord delivered in Whitehorse. Text or call Doug Martens/Teslin @ 334-7364
Friday, March 28, 2014 MENʼS 10K 61 gram gold bracelet, appraised at $4,000, asking $2,500. 335-5465
BEAUTIFUL LONG length mink coat, size 14, dark colour w/hat, $750. (250)723-0944
JACQUES COUSTEAU Collection set of 4, #1 Life & Death in a Coral Sea, #2 Dolphins, #3 Sharks, #4 Whales, Collection of 4, $100. 633-3113
ROYAL WEDDING Album, $20, King Tutankhamenʼs Treasures, $20, Mandrell family album, signatured, $20, assorted novels, $5. 633-3113
SLIDE SORTER, like new, $20. 667-6907
SOLAR E Q U I P M E N T , Trace DC disconnect/over-current module, Trace charge/load controller, Trace power conversion centre, Nexen back-up charger, misc cables & fittings, ready to go, $1,500. 668-3647
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QUEEN SIZE Cdn. Tire air bed on legs, like new, $50. 667-6991 OIL FURNACE, 3 yrs old, just serviced professionally. Olsen BML80B, 59,000-97,000, BTU/hr. EnergyGuide 83, $1,000. 335-8153 PROPANE TANK/BOTTLE, 100 lbs, full of propane, no rust, great cond, never used, $200 obo. 393-2110
Des professionnels engagés Conseils en développement de carrière
BAFFIN SNOPACKS Boots, sz 12, Arctic type, new, $90. 660-5101
Création, amélioration et traduction de CV
SEEDLING BOXES, various sizes, free for the taking, call for info. 667-6907
Simulation d’entrevue
3 MENʼS wool jackets, size L, good cond, $20 ea. 667-6907 VINTAGE STORAGE trunks for bedding, etc, cedar lined, serious offers only, 333-9020
Des services personnalisés et des ressources utiles.
VINTAGE STEREO cabinet record player, Zenith floor model, flips over for compact storage, serious offers, 333-9020 Éducation
Direction de l’enseignement postsecondaire
CENTRE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE 302, rue Strickland, Whitehorse (Yukon) 867.668.2663 poste 223 www.sofa-yukon.ca
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Employment Opportunity
Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.
Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.
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ExpRESSiOn OF intERESt Archaeological Camp Site Manager
Bachelor of Social Work Program
School of Health, Education & Human Services Applied Arts Division Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Term Position from: July 2, 2014 - May 15, 2015 Salary: $1390.00 to $1657.00 bi-weekly (based on 37.5 hours bi-weekly) Initial Review Date: April 22, 2014 Competition No.: 14.26 Reporting to the Chair, School of Health, Education and Human Services, this position will be responsible for instructional duties within the Bachelor of Social Work program. Duties include student advising, practica supervision, supporting instructional administration and participating in cultural events. The ideal candidate will have an MSW or PhD in Social Work combined with experience teaching, preferably at the post-secondary level, working as a Social Worker and developing community links and partnerships with First Nations communities.
VINTAGE GLASS milk jars, 13 qt, 3 pint size for vases or craft projects, $30; various cutlery, some silver, good for craft projects, $25. 821-6011
School of Liberal Arts Little John Archaeological Site (Beaver Creek, YT) Casual Hire from: May 26, 2014 - August 1, 2014 Hourly rate: $22.22 Initial Review Date: March 31, 2014 Competition No.: 14.29 As an Archaeological Camp Site Manager you will be responsible for coordinating the day to day requirements of the field camp. Duties will include the following: managing camp financials, organizing weekly menus, purchasing and managing the grocery inventory along with the field gear and equipment, and scheduling task lists for students and assisting in student basic field orientation knowledge and camp etiquette. We are looking for an individual who has previous archaeological field experience in a group and wilderness setting, excellent organizational skills, camping experience in extreme/strenuous conditions, Wilderness First Aid certification (or able to obtain prior to commencement of duties), valid passport and allowed to enter the United States, and a valid driver’s license.
Experience teaching with distance learning technologies, CPR/Standard First Aid certification and/or a valid Class 4 Yukon Driver’s license would be considered assets.
For additional position information please contact: Victoria Castillo Acting Chair, Liberal Arts (867) 668-8879 vcastillo@yukoncollege.yk.ca
Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
VINTAGE CLEMENT canoe paddles, T-handle, 56” and 60”, 8ʼ blade, $30 ea. 660-5101 VARIOUS POCKET books from 60s & 70s, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan, John Le Carre, Tom Robbins, W.P. Kinesella, Roald Dahl, Herman Hesse, etc. 660-5101 MANFROTTO VIDEO Head and Tripod: Manfrotto Video Head (504HD) with 3-section Carbon Fiber Tripod (MPRO 535) and nylon carry case (MBAG100PN). Like-new condition. $950. 667-6472 POOL TABLE, 5 regular pool cues, 1 child's pool cue, granny stick, cue/ball rack, score board, 3 sets of balls, $550. 334-3158 18 240 watt electrical plug receptacles wired into elec boxes, offers. 4 Green Hornet LED lights for dark room, $5 ea. 334-7535 HONEYWELL DIGITAL thermostat, model Focus Pro 5000, 5-yr warranty, new, $25. Daytol cooling thermostat, $50. 336-4202 3 1000 sq.ft. rolls of Thermaflow poly sheeting, super white reflective, $25 per roll. 334-7535 2 HONEYWELL Air Genius air purifier, screens out microbials, mould, bacteria, new $225, asking $100. 336-4202 15 1000 watt HPS, high efficient light bulbs, $25 ea. 5 1000 watt IMH bulbs, $25 ea. 334-7535 3 8” inline Hurricane fans, used, $100. 1 8” Hurricane fan, new, $150. 336-4202 SHEET METAL air ducting adapters, 3 10”-8”, 3 8”-6”, 1 10”- 3 8”, thermo insulated ducting 6”, 8”, 10”, various lengths, offers. 334-7535 8 1000 watt light reflector hoods w class bottom, enclosed w 6” air cooled ports, $75 ea. 7 1000 watt 6” ported” glass tube w batwing reflector, A$80 ea 9 1000 watt ballasts Lumatek 240 power supply only, $100 ea. 3 Intermatic model T104 heavy duty timers, $35 ea. 334-7535 9 1000 watt ballasts dual 120/240 watt w dimmable & super lumens from 50%-110% operating output, super efficient, lightweight and cool, $150 ea. 336-4202 CEDAR SIDING, 1x6x8' TnG planed both sides, 3 lifts, each has 216 pieces, covers approx 780 sq ft. $1,350/lift or .80 cents per lf. 867-335-1088 for more details FLOUR MILL, Lee Household S600, 1/4hp motor, adjustable stone grinding setting for a variety of grains, exc. cond. New $700.00, $300 firm. 821-6011 FOR SALE : newly constructed out house. For more information call 334-3997 PLANT STARTER pots. 668-4186 HIGH QUALITY, new compost toilet, odour free operation, reliable, highly efficient self contained unit, used world wide, many commercial applications, ideal for remote locations. $2,200 obo. 633-6502 NEW 3120XP Husqvarna chainsaw, used once, $1,250 obo. 334-6094
Electrical Appliances HOTPOINT (GE) washer, works great, (we upgraded) $150. 334-5323
KENMORE CERAMIC top range, convection, self-clean, delay cook, top end several years ago, one burner is slower, $200, can deliver in Whse area. 667-2276
VINTAGE FENDER Bandmaster Reverb (TFL 5005-D), 45 watt guitar amp, tube amp made in the 70s, 2 12” speakers, stage amp, stands over 3ʼ tall, $850. 333-9084
ROLAND CUBE 40 XL guitar amp, 40 watts of power, clean, overdrive and reverb, amp in new condition, very compact, c/w manual. $250. 333-9084
TVs & Stereos
TRABEN CHAOS Core Bass with strap, hard case, amp & amp cord, 1 year old, played only twice, great cond, plays well. $1,100 obo. 335-5185
FIBERGLASS BONGOS, red, heavy duty double-braced tilting stands chrome. Ideal for use within a drum set or stand alone. Tools. $175. 668-5701
Paying cash for good quality modern electronics. G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS 3DHD SAMSUNG TV, 2 glasses, $800. 336-3093
Computers & Accessories EPSON PHOTO R1800 color printer, free. 633-3154 APPLE AIRPORT Extreme Model No. A1408, 2011, 5th generation. Excellent condition, original packaging. $75. 667-6472 CINTIQ 12WX Tablet Display, incl.Pen, Driver Software and manual, hardly used, compatible with Window and Mac, new $1,200, asking $800. 867-863-5404 ASUS P5Q Pro Motherboard, Intel Core2 Quad Q8400 @2.66GHz 4 Core processor 6MB DDR2 Memory, 667-2066
Musical Instruments We will buy your musical instrument or lend you money against it. G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS FENDER TELECASTER electric guitar, made in US, like new, $1,200. 334-3009 PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com GUITAR RAVEN Acoustic A-series with case, 660-5101
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Employment Opportunity
Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.
Expression of Interest for: Renewable Resources Management (RRMT) Instructor(s) Upcoming Terms – September 2014/January 2015 Applied Science & Management School of Science Competition#: 14.35 Initial Review Date: April 4, 2014
RRMT 201: RRMT 237: RRMT 238: RRMT 241: RRMT 242:
Winter Travel & Survival Fisheries Management Environmental Protection & Impact Assessment Introduction to Land Management First Nation Land Management
FENDER SUPER Champ X2 HD guitar amplifier, mint, $350. Thomas @ 867-660-4826, lv. msg
If you have relevant experience and education and are interested in teaching in a post-secondary setting, please send us your resume. For more information, please contact: Robert Ferro at rferro@yukoncollege.yk.ca
JAY TURSER electric guitar, new strings, strat. style. $120. 333-9084 BEAVER CREAK acoustic guitar, c/w voyager soft shell case, new strings, $140. 333-9084
FIREWOOD FOR SALE Beetle killed Approximately 20-cord logging truck loads $150 per cord Delivered to Whitehorse Call Clayton @ 867-335-0894
DONʼS FIREWOOD 100+-cord bucked firewood always available No-charge emergency delivery Kwanlin Dun/Social Services Why wait? Prompt delivery $240/cord City limits No excuses 393-4397
SUMMER EMPLOYMENT
PACKER/SWAMPER Whitehorse, YT (91870 Alaska Hwy) We need summer help for a busy household moving company. You must be able to carry weights of 10-50 lbs, taking inventory and disassembling and re-assembling furniture. This is a temporary summer position starting at the end of April, 2014 and ending August 31, 2014. Daily/weekly overtime and weekend hours may apply. Training provided. **End of Summer Retention Bonus Available $500** Please apply by sending your resume to Marica MacDonald at
marica.macdonald@matco.ca
Yukon College is looking for qualified person(s), on a casual/sessional basis, to teach:
For more information on our individual courses, please go to: http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/courses
SAMICK 30 watt guitar amp, $80. 333-9084
Firewood
Are you interested in teaching part-time?
FENDER SQUIER Vintage modified precision bass, exc cond, c/w gig bag, $385. Thomas at 867-660-4826, lv msg
YAMAHA DIGITAL piano, $700. 336-3093
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Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
employment opportunities
Wolverine Mine Career Opportunities
Metallurgy Student
Wolverine Mine, Yukon
Yukon Zinc Corporation is interested in hiring a Metallurgy Summer or Coop Student at its Wolverine Mine in the southeast Yukon Territory. Responsibilities Reporting to a Mill Metallurgist, the Metallurgical Student will contribute to the day-to-day operations of the mineral processing plant and the metallurgy team. More specific responsibilities include: • Compile & file Daily Shift Mill Operators reports. • Prepare & send Daily Mill morning production reports • Provide daily and/or weekly updates to the reagent tracking files. • Gather and prepare daily On-Stream- Analyzer (OSA) Calibration samples • Collect weekly Thickener overflow samples • Conduct bench flotation testing, sample preparation & screen analysis.
Yukon Hospital Corporation has the following openings:
Requirements • 2nd or 3rd year Mineral Processing or related program • Able to work a rotational work schedule of 2 weeks in x 2 weeks out • Must be living or staying in Whitehorse, YT • Consent to a pre-employment medical examination which includes a drug & alcohol screening. Note: This is a 3-4 month term position
Manager – Therapy Services (Whitehorse General Hospital)
Wolverine Mine, Yukon
PHYsioTHeraPisT – Therapy Services (Whitehorse General Hospital)
Yukon Zinc Corporation has immediate openings for qualified Mill Operators in the mineral processing plant at its Wolverine Mine project in the southeast Yukon Territory. Make Wolverine Mine your next career choice!
Competition #2014-044 – regular Full Time
Competition #2014-050 – Term Full Time
Mill OperatOr
Competition #2014-043 – Term Full Time
Requirements • Demonstrated processing plant operating experience in any or all of the following: › Control Room › Flotation › Reagents › Dewatering • Experience in copper, zinc, lead mineral processing is an asset • Excellent work ethics and demonstrated record of safety leadership • Able to work a 2 week x 2 week rotation. • Consent to a pre-employment medical examination which includes a drug & alcohol screening
Visit our website at www.yukonhospitals.ca for more information on these and other job opportunities.
Wolverine is a “dry camp”, fly-in/fly-out underground mine operation. The mine site is located midway between Ross River and Watson Lake on the Robert Campbell Highway and is approximately 280 km by air northeast of Whitehorse.
Please email your resume/application quoting the appropriate competition number to:
Interested and qualified candidates should send their resume via the Current Careers option on our website at www.yukonzinc.com, or by fax, toll-free, at (866) 887-7517.
email: wghjobs@wgh.yk.ca
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, we are only able to contact those who have been shortlisted.
regisTered nurse – Maternity (Whitehorse General Hospital) Competition #2014-049 – Term Full Time
regisTered nurse – Chemotherapy (Whitehorse General Hospital) Competition #2014-010 – regular Part Time
regisTered nurse – West Unit (Whitehorse General Hospital)
Yukon Hospital Corporation is committed to employment equity. We thank all those who apply and advise that only those candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted.
For more information and to apply to Yukon Zinc, visit us at:
www.yukonzinc.com
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EmploymEnt opportunity At Yukon Energy, we believe that we are the employer of choice in the Yukon. We foster a respectful and positive work environment making it a rewarding place to work. We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits and generous northern and travel allowances. So take the next step in your career path and join our team of skilled and dedicated employees.
Web Developer / IT Technician Whitehorse, Yukon Full Time, Permanent
Salary Range: $81,979 - $89,324 plus benefits This position requires a skilled and flexible professional to work as part of the IT team in a varied and fast paced environment. The primary focus of this position will be to support Web, intranet, database and server applications. Additionally you will provide support to both the network and systems functions as required. We are looking for someone with: A technical diploma in Computer Science or Information Technology plus several years related experience. Solid skills and experience in Microsoft SQL and SharePoint server are required. Additionally we are looking for proficiency in at least one structured programming language; understanding of object oriented programming; knowledge of server and workstation security software, databases and backup systems; and experience in trouble shooting hardware and software issues in a LAN/WAN environment with a Windows Active Directory Domain. Linux OS experience and storage administration and/or Cisco certifications would be an asset. To apply, submit a covering letter and resume by 5:00 pm April 9, 2014 to Human Resources via fax to (867) 393-5334 or email us at hr@yec.yk.ca. We appreciate all responses; only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Friday, March 28, 2014
JOB OPPORTUNIT Y Daylu Dena Council is seeking applications for the position of
CAPITAL MANAGER
Daylu Dena Council is currently recruiting a full time Capital Manager located at Lower Post B.C. He/she Works under the support and supervision provided by the Executive Director and will be involved in financial and strategic planning and implementation, overseeing daily operations of the Capital projects, and reporting to funding agencies. Skills Required: Minimum Qualifications: • Education in Property Management, Housing Administration, and Project Management • Policy development within Capital • Accounting and Computer expertise Required Skills and Knowledge: • Team leadership, management skills, and social awareness. • Strategic Planning skills and Time Management Skills • Thorough knowledge of all federal, provincial, and other funding sources and reporting requirements • General knowledge of the culture, values and traditions of the Kaska Dena is an asset • AANDC funding policies within Capital • Water and wastewater legislation, regulations and standards Benefits and Other Information: Salary and Remunerations: We offer a respectful, and progressive work environment, a competitive salary, and an above average benefits package. Application Instructions: Please submit your application with a cover letter, updated resume, copy of certification and 3 current references to: Denelle Spencer Phone: (250) 779-3161-2304 ext.248 or Email: executivedirector@dayludenacouncil.com CLOSING DATE: MARCH 31, 2014
For complete details visit flyairnorth.com/careers CLOSING DATE: 4 April 2014 LOCATION: Whitehorse, Yukon POSITION TYPE: Permanent full-time If you are interested in this position, please submit your resumé to Krista Power on or before 4 April 2014. EMAIL/FAX: careers@flyairnorth.com / 867.456.3111 IN PERSON: Air North Administrative Office 150 Condor Road, Whitehorse, Yukon We wish to express our appreciation to all applicants for their interest in the position and advise that only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
General Assignment Reporter with photography skills. We’re a twice-weekly community newspaper that often punches above our weight, producing probing, award-winning journalism. Last year we won six Canadian Community Newspaper Awards – more than any other publication in our circulation size. This is a full-time job. We’re looking for someone to preferably start June 1. We’re looking for someone who has a proven ability to work as a newspaper reporter. In exchange for your hustle and drive, we’ll give you an opportunity to do some of your best writing in your career. As one of three or four news reporters, you’d be expected to divide your time between writing news assignments and producing features for our arts, business and life sections in the back of the paper. The ideal candidate is able to pound out a hard-hitting news story on deadline and write a thoughtful, entertaining feature during a lull. News judgement, attention to detail, the ability to meet daily deadlines and a cool head under pressure are all essential. Having competent photography skills is an asset. The Yukon News supplies the camera equipment. Please also indicate if you have a driver’s licence. Please send editor John Thompson a cover letter, resume and five published stories that show the depth and breadth of your reporting experience, as well as samples of your published images. Applications may be emailed to editor@yukon-news.com. DeADLINe Is MArCH 31.
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Guns & Bows Case cutlery, high quality hand-crafted pocket and hunting knives available at G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS 8MM MAUSER, hand made hardwood stock, bedded and floated, recent refinish of whole rifle, sights & rings, $300 firm, PAL req'd. 667-2276 NORINCO JW 27 bolt action .22 LR with 2.5X scope, $160. 668-6716 RUGER M77 Mark II all weather stainless steel cal. .223, new, $700. 668-6716 The Patty Maker We process wild meat. We offer: Cut, grind, cut & wrap Fresh sausages 1/4 lb patties All natural casing Werner Fischer 7 Locust Place (off Ponderosa) 633-2346 SAKO TIKKA 300 WSM lite stainless, exc cond, muzzle break, Burris 3x9 scope unmounted, limbsaver, bi pod, PAL required, $1,400. 633-2449 NON-RESTRICTED FIREARMS course presented by Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club, April 5 & 6. For more info call 633-6536 or 334-1688
BOLT ACTION Browning Safari 30-06 classic hunting rifle, c/w Leupold base, $750. 336-2789 WINCHESTER MODEL 70 243 win, good cond, $600. 336-2789 1866 DATED Remington rolling block chambered in 8x58 Danish perfect bore, c/w brass & dies, $650. 336-2789 REMINGTON .308 ACC-AD tactical sniper rifle (1-10 twist, threaded muzzle,sun shade) with Bushnell Elite 4-15-40 scope, external hash marks, turret style. comes with sling, hard case/rounds. 336-8525 GSG 1911 hand gun .22 caliber, weighted replica of the .45acp, c/w 2 clips, carry case, restricted licence required, $400 obo. 336-8525 S&W MODEL 64 revolver, .38 special, 6 shots, stainless, exc cond, 101 mm barrel, $600. 668-6716
2011 KIA Forte SX Koup, 6-spd manual, black, great cond, like new, c/w set of winter/summer tires, 37,000kms, 2 yrs warranty left, need something different for work, $14,000. 335-3210
2005 TOYOTA Sienna, 190,000kms, 4 mounted new summer/4 mounted studded winters, new mounted spare, command start, Light Force lights, ipod/Sirius wiring, well maintained, Dawson CIty. 334-9328
2009 RAV4 V6 Sport, 90,200km, loaded, exc cond, serviced by Toyota, 2-yrs on 30,000km Toyota extended warranty left, service records avail, $18,900. 335-6817
2004 HONDA CRV 4 Cyl. all wheel drive, std. Single owner, regular maintenance, good condition, 170,000 km and $8,800, negotiable. Call 633-5002
2008 SUZUKI GSX-R 750, mint condit, 5,000 kms, well maintained, $7,600 obo or trade for dirt bike, quad or truck of equal value. 335-1106
2002 MUSTANG 4.6L, 5-spd, new tires/battery, exc looking/running cond, low kms, $8,500. 633-2740
2007 DODGE Caliber, like new condition, 128,000 km, standard, heated seats, remote start, 6 CD stereo, 2 sets tires, $9500 obo. 333-0236 or 456-4112
2001 DODGE Neon, 44,000kms, maroon, sunroof, auto start, $5,500 obo. 334-3376 2000 CADILLAC DTS, pearl white on beige leather, rare night vision option, low kms, 130,000, beautiful condition, $9,800 obo. 335-5465
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2006 PONTIAC Solstice convertible sports car, 65,000 km, 2.4 4 cyl 177hp, 5-spd standard, Immaculate, great sound, great heater. $19,500. Spring is coming! 633-5470
1999 JETTA 2.0L, gas, body in decent cond, engine is good, needs standard trans, 40 mpg highway, 333-0788
WANTED: WOOD stove for the garage, preferably RSF. 334-6868
2006 VOLKSWAGON Jetta TDI, 130,000 kms. 633-4531
1990 SUBARU SW Legacy, good runner, $1,500. 633-2740
WANTED: OLDER style double paned wooden framed windows for solarium, 4x3ʼ, 4x4ʼ, or 4x5ʼ, 668-5964
2005 TOYOTA Echo Hatchback, red, exc cond, c/w second set of winter tires/rims, 132,000kms, $7,500 obo. 335-0607 or 334-5190
1988 FORD Cougar, 2-dr hard top, power everything, gd tires, new shocks, runs well, $3,000 obo or trade for Ski-doo or same value 4-wheeler. 668-7976
WANTED: BEE keeping equipment (used/new), bees & queen, 5 cu ft chest freezer. Christina 390-2004 WANTED: DRESSMAKING form on a stand, inexpensive. 668-5188 WANTED: LOOKING to purchase a meat band saw, 633-8416 WANTED: PLEXIGLAS floor mat for home office chair. Must be thicker material for use on plush carpets. Call Ken @ 633-4686 WANTED: DOG-SITTER in your home for 8 lb dog, no other pets, please, for June, July & Aug, Monday through Thursday overnight. Will pay well. 633-6401 for info. WANTED: SNOWBLOWER, Craftsman 10HP dual stage 32", for parts only, does not need to be working. Call Ken @ 633-4686 WANTED: FORD Owners, CRG Mystery shopping looking for people to mystery shop local dealership while getting oil change. Get paid to fill out online survey, reimbursed for the service. www.crgms.com
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WANTED: LAMINATE flooring: need 1-2 boxes of Dreamfloor v-groove wood laminate in "Canyon Acacia" colour. 667-4616
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School of Health, Education & Human Services Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Hourly Rate: $32.30 to $36.33 Competition No.: 14.37 Initial Review Date: April 4, 2014 Yukon College is looking for an interested and qualified candidate to develop curriculum in the Early Childhood Development program area. Duties will include: researching, developing and mapping ECD courses and incorporating current standards and best practices. The ideal candidate will have a relevant post-secondary degree, preferably at the graduate level, with experience developing curriculum and delivering adult education programming in the field of human services.
2011 CHEVY Aveo hatchback, auto, 27,000kms, summer/winter tires on rims, great gas mileage, must sell, $8,500 obo. 334-1006 2009 NISSAN Maxima Sport 58,000 kms, exc cond, winter/summer tires on rims, bose, remote start, leather heated seats and steering, much more, $25,750. 335-9976
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1987 DODGE 600 4-door 6cyl runs good, interior clean, paint not pretty but good solid transportation, $1,500 obo. 334-8089
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2010 FORD Escape XLT Sports Edition, 55,300kms, V-6, 4-WD, power everything, hitch, moonroof, leather, remote start, Blue Tooth, Sirius, LED interior lights, paid $37,000 new, asking $18,900. 336-3033 2010 NISSAN X Terra offroad edition, 6-spd standard, like new, 61,000km, 332-3928 2009 DODGE Caravan with stow and go seating, 134,000km, new all season tires, in excellent condition, $11,500.00. 333-0236 or 456-4112 2009 FORD Ranger 4x4 Supercab Sport, V6, 5-spd auto, great cond, 72,000 km, leather, AC, MP-3 player, tow pgk, step boards, new winter/all weather tires, $16,900 obo. 633-4342
2008 F-150 SuperCrew XLT/XTR Plus pkg. Ford extended warranty, summer/winter wheels, power everything, sunroof, tow pkg, canopy, 6ʼ6” bed, 117,000kms, $17,500 obo. 332-5985 leave message. 2008 GMC Acadia AWD SLT1 (SUV), 92,000km, blue-gold crystal metallic, fully loaded (no Nav), 7 seats, 3rd row foldable, great family vehicle, $19,500 obo. 333-0033 2008 TOYOTA Tacoma, extra cab, canopy, 4 cyl, manual, 93,000 kms, mostly highway, exc cond, 2 sets rims/tires, great gas mileage, $15,000. 668-3584 2007 3500 Dodge Laramie diesel, low mileage, 2 sets tires on rims, winter studded and summer, $38,000 obo. 336-1701 2007 TOYOTA Sienna limited AWD 7 passenger minivan, 75,000 kms, power sliding doors/rear hatch, sunroof, all options, new winter tires on rims, serious offers only, 333-9020 2006 FORD F-150 4X4 ext cab, 5.4L, incl winter/summer tires, camper tie downs, towing pkg, recently replaced brakes, clean/reliable, 183,000kms, $12,000 obo. 867-863-5508 2006 GMC 1500 extʼd cab 4x4, fully loaded leather seats, box liner and cover, new tires, non-smoker, 180,000kms, $15,500. 778233-2855 or 250-651-7880
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2005 TOYOTA Sequoia 4 WD, 158,000kms, 8 passenger, leather, new Goodyear tires, electric brake controller, $22,000. 867-660-4723 or 867-332-5450
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2004 DODGE 1500 crew cab, 4X4, Laramie, fully loaded, 185,000kms, $11,000 obo. 456-4377
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2004 GMC 7 passenger Safari van, blue, 170,000km, well maintained, $5,800 obo, 334-5491 for info 2004 RAM 2500 4X4 diesel, long box, auto, 6” lift, new trans, set up for work, $23,000 obo. 536-2658
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2003 GMC 2500HD, 167,000kms, headache rack, camper special, $10,500. 334-9782
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2002 CHEV Silverado 4x4 ext cab, 4-dr, V8 auto, cruise, new Wrangler tires, $5,999. 667-7777 or 336-2029
Treasured still with love sincere The memory of one we love so dear.
2002 MAZDA B2300 2.3L 4 cyl manual RWD,150,000km, new timing chain, c/w canopy, summer/winter tires on rims, $4,000 obo. 334-8287
Love Andrea, Edgar & Yahlayla
Isabel Jean Tutt “GrAnny”
May 31, 1928 – March 20, 2014 It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Granny. Isabel Tutt passed away peacefully at Whitehorse General Hospital at the age of 85. Isabel was predeceased by the love of her life, Clifford Tutt. She leaves behind 13 children, numerous grandchildren, many great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren. Granny has helped many people throughout her life. Family or not, she was always known as Granny. A celebrAtion of life for isAbel will be held on Friday, April 4, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. The service will be held in Whitehorse at the Royal Canadian Legion located at 503 Steele Street. Granny will be truly missed, but never forgotten by her loving family.
stephen Mills Jr., left us on March 19th, 2014 at the young age of 21. While we are all deeply saddened, we have been blessed with his kind heart and thoughtful ways, his laughter, his love of life and deep caring for all his friends and family. His spirit lives with the people and the land that he loved.
2001 DODGE Dakota RT, 5.9L, auto, loaded, fast truck, low kms, $6,500. 633-2740 2001 FORD F-250, ext cab, long bed, 7.3L diesel, auto, bed liner, air bags, wired for camper, new tires, good shape, $9,000. 335-7878 1999 DODGE Ram 1500 SLT 1/2 ton, 4X4, ext cab, 4-dr, V8 auto, c/w canopy, new Michelin tires, all power equipped, $4,299. 667-7777 or 336-2029 1998 DODGE 3500 dually & 2008 F250 4x4. 335-3243 1998 DODGE Dakota Sport, 4x4, std, candy apple red, new tires, front end & brakes, $5,800. 336-3566 or 393-3490 1997 DODGE 2500 4X4 Cummins, 169,000kms, one owner, dealer serviced since new, all records, pristine condition, $17,500 obo. 456-2130 1997 DODGE Ram 1500, good cond, 217,000 km, new tires, must go, all offers considered, $5,000 obo. 335-4501 or thesnarkhunter@hotmail.com 1997 SUBURBAN 4WD, 208,000 kms, well maintained, $5,000 obo. 668-3243 1994 DODGE Dakota 4X4, extʼd cab, V8, 318 motor, 210,500kms, canopy, $3,600. 821-3369 1992 GMC 2500 4X4, new motor, exhaust system & transfer case, good cond, low kms, very powerful, $4,800 obo. 334-5032 1992 TOYOTA 4-Runner, 4X4, 22re, 4-cyl, 5-spd standard, good tires, new timing chain/main brake lines, price includes identical parts vehicle, 346,000km, $2,500 obo. 867-863-5508 1990 DODGE 1-ton van, V8, auto, rear cabinets c/w heater, mint cond (needs differential), near-new rubber, $1,400. 667-7777 1979 1-TON flat deck, dually, 68,000 km, $2,500. 393-2728
Friday, March 28, 2014 1990 TOYOTA Hiace, AWD, diesel, auto, excellent fuel consumption, 8 passenger or great camping/handicapped vehicle, 128,000 kms, $4,500. 333-9020
Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 4 255/70 R17 tires, good tread, $200. 633-2740 3 14” trailer tires, with white spoke rims, $225. 633-2740 FULL SIZE truck bed liner, fits 1974-1996 Ford, $200. 633-2580 4 M O T O M A S T E R all terrain tires, 225/75R16, studded, 3,000km, 4 steel wheels (rims), 5 lug bolt pattern, 4.5" or 114.3mm, fits on Jeeps and many others, $650 obo. 660-4646 TRUCK TOPPER/CANOPY, heavy duty, side sliding windows with screens, front sliding window, back window with lock, 98"x72"x22", dark red, $650 obo. 660-4646 BLUE LENSES for 10” Lightforce lights, $35. 667-6907 2001 DAKOTA tailgate, new cond, $175, 633-2740
Mills Jr. We Welcome friends and family to a vieWing on Sunday, March 30th, 2014 from 2:00 to 4:00 at the Heritage North Funeral Home in Whitehorse. Stephen’s service will be at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre on Monday, March 31st, 2014 at 2:00 followed by a celebration of his life and feast. Please join us in celebrating stePhen and all that he gave and meant to us. Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there; I do not sleep. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die. I’ll always be with you.
15-GAL FISH tank with all accessories & food, comes with large Jack Dempsey fish and large sucker fish, $80. 633-4707
Motorcycles & Snowmobiles TAITʼS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com 2009 DUCATI Monster 696 in showroom cond, 2,700 kms, 1 owner. Incls cover, charger, & more, $8,750. Serious inquiries only. 335-3349 RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg 2007 BRP 400 Outlander quad, $4,000 obo. 336-1701 WANTED: LATE 60s or early 70s snowmobile, any condition, seeking Elan parts. 633-5480
NEW HONDA fit rim, never used, $50. 334-3009
Recreational Powersports and Marine (RPM) Repairs Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates 335-4181
4 GOODYEAR Tracker #2 tires, P235/70 R16, over half tread left, $150. 633-6072
ICE FISHING auger, as new, 33 cc, 8” auger, $325 obo. 633-6502
TIRES! TIRES! TIRES! Seasonal Changeover Good used tires–15”,16”,17”,18”,19” and 20”–lots to choose from. $25 to $150 a tire. $25 to mount and balance per tire. Mechanical Services Call Art 334-4608
2009 SKI-DOO Summit 800, exc cond, has c and a skis, ceramic can, 1800 miles, c/w Ski-doo team cover, spare upper/lower a arms, tie rod ends, $7,000 obo 333-0484
4 TOYO A/T open ranger tires LT265/70 R17, 10 ply c/w 8-hole Dodge aluminum rims w nuts & centre hubs, 1/2 worn, $400. 334-3009
NEW RANCHO shocks for 2005 Chev pick-up, $120 obo. 334-9357 WANTED: 334-9357
TIRES, size 285/75 R16.
ALTERNATOR FOR 1995 Toyota Corolla, 1 year old. $100 obo. 867-660-4723 or 867-332-5450 GALVANIZED HEADACHE rack to fit short box pick-up, $200. 50-gal Tidy Tank and pump, $400. 336-8406
Pets 3/4 PUG & 1/4 chug puppy for sale, 3.5 months old, has all shots update, $450. Inquire at 633-5362 F1 LABRADOODLE puppies, Chocolate females & Black males, ready to go 16th May, will deliver to Whitehorse. Call 867-536-2296
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2 YEAR old, medium sized husky cross to give to a loving, cat free home, great with kids/other dogs, quiet, gentle disposition, but needs active interaction. Playful and intelligent. 668-2952
d r a h c i R r r e K . N June 4,1968 – March 27, 2013
There’s not a day that goes by When we don’t have a memory of you, In our hearts you still remain Although You were taken from us to too be with Jordan We miss you every day and say a prayer to you To say how much WE LOVE YOU! LOVE Mom, Dad, Colleen (Matt), Brian, Danica Your friends far and near, YOUR SONS WILLIAM, ANDREW & YOUR GIRL DINA
WANTED: SKANDIC SWT with the 600 ACE motor in good condition with low km. 634-2559 2011 PROWLER 700 DTX sideXside, tilt cargo box, winch, seats 3, upgraded 6 ply tires, c/w original tires, power steering, front/rear hitch receiver, below market, $6,800 or trade. 335-7436 2011 PROWLER 700 HDX sideXside, seats 3, tilt cargo box, winch, power steering, upgraded, new 6 ply tires, gun holder, skid plates, storage, selling below market, $6,800 obo. 335-7436 2010 M8 Sno Pro, $6,000 obo. Must sell. 689-8738 2010 ARCTIC Cat BearCat 570 XT, wide track, 2-up seat, reverse, hand warmers, elec start, 3,630 Miles, great trail machine and/or work horse, $6,500. 393-2111 2005 SUZUKI Boulevard. 800 cc, exc cond, shaft drive, electronic fuel injection, 17,000 kms, well maintained, easy to drive, maneuverable, great on gas, c/w wind screen, $4,500. 335-4486 2005 SUZUKI 700 King Quad, windshield and faring, rear storage compartment, low miles, great cond, $5,500. 333-9020 2005 POLARIS 800 RMK, 159” track, reverse, complete rebuilt engine, clutch rebuilt, SLP pipe & V Force reeds, $4,800. 633-4643 2009 KLX 250 c/w cover, rear rack, runs great, perfect commuter, 1,700 kms. $3,750 obo. 334-9098 1995 SLE touring snow machine, good overall condition, $800 obo. 334-9357 2005 YAMAHA V Star 1100 cc, exc cond, c/w helmet, cover, Vance & Hines pipes, 13,000kms, $5,500 obo. 334-9098 2004 YAMAHA Virago 250, 06725 kms, new condition, $3,600 obo. 667-6990 2010 YAMAHA Nytro XTX, 1200 km, 144 x 1.75" track, header and fuel controller, 9" Slydog powder skis, cover, fantastic crossover sled for on-trail or off, $6,500. Call/text 335-5964 SMALL DIRTBIKE, little use, $400 obo. 668-3243
Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 21ʼ CAMPION Fishing Machine 210, walk around with cuddy, 225hp Mercury outboard, GPS, fish finder, marine radio, 2 downriggers, $11,000. 333-0740 MERCURY 15HP kicker with stand in exc cond, only 80hrs, $2,700. 334-3158
1999 21FT bayliner classic 450 inboard motor seats 6, marine band radio, new marine stereo, selling with trailer, $7,500 obo. 334-3158 12ʼX54ʼHOUSEBOAT, VERY good condition, too much to list, c/w trailer & one years moorage in Atlin, fully equipped, ready to go, $53,000 obo. 778-233-2855 or 250-651-7880
Heavy Equipment NEW PORTABLE sawmill. Manufactured in Yukon. Cuts logs 2ʼ diameter, 20ʼ long. $4,850 obo. Check it out on www.pro-cut.com 334-6094 SHAKER SLUICE box on skids, spray bar, gas engine, spray bar, $5,000. 867-536-7610 for info. PJ TRAILER 2008, 20ʼ tandem axle flat deck 13,800 gvwr, 16" rubber, 2 5/16 ball, brakes on all 4 wheels replaced 2012, bearings done 2012, $4,500. 633-5470 843 BOBCAT, 4,500 hrs, c/w bucket, blade, well maintained, ready for work, $14,000. 456-8833 (cell) or 867-399-7010 PORTABLE, GAS powered. 225 amp arc welder/ gen set on 4-wheeled wagon with hitch. $2,000 obo. 633-6502 S-185 2008 Bobcat skidsteer, 5 attachments, 1 trailer, 1900 hrs, great well maintained machine. 334-5695 for info VARIOUS SIZE and type of water pumps for mining, diesel engines, 1 hydraulic for floating, 1 pump only, can deliver to Whitehorse. email brmining@hushmail.com Wesley 250235-3333 HOBART 17 hp gas powered arc welder/gen set, exc cond, with or without wagon, $2,400 obo. 633-6502 M-50 GOLD Watch Project washplant, complete shaker plant w/slice, $40,000. 393-2728 KOMATSU 335-3243
MINI excavator for sale,
ALUMINUM FUEL tank, 3 compartments, c/w valves, 3,300 gallons, skid mounted, $4,000. 668-2387 2006 KAWASAKI 95Z loader, 7-yd bucket, located in Dawson City, $98,000. 334-5432 2012 KUBOTA K121-3, low hours, 6-way blade, A/C, radio, $35,000. 393-2728 WANTED: 5 to 6 ton crawler, 6-way blade and winch, forestry pkg useful. Jim, 250-651-7716, lv msg 2005 ARGO Avenger, 8-wheel, low hours, c/w windshield, enclosed canopy, tracks, snow plow blade, outboard motor mount & winch, $15,000. 393-2728
Campers & Trailers TAITʼS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon 2004 8ʼ camperette, sleeps 2, very clean, simple design, great for hunting, $1,700 or trade for quad or dirt bike of equal value. 335-1106 2009 T@B trailer in exc condition, fridge, stovetop, sink, dining table folds down to large bed, CD player, c/w large tent which attaches, $12,000. 334-5190 2002 10 1/2ʼ Frontier camper, $6,500 obo. 336-1701 8ʼX12ʼ DOUBLE wide quad trailer, seldom used, $2,800 obo. 336-1701 SNOWBEAR UTILITY trailer, 4' x 8' deck, 2,090 lb axle, weights 450 lbs, removable steel rails/ramp tilting deck, 4-way flat elec trailer connector, 1ʼ ball receiver, $1,150 obo. 660-4646 20ʼ ENCLOSED cargo trailer, dual axle, 8ʼ wide, side window & barn style doors, $6,500 obo. Gary 335-9596 2004 FLEETWOOD RV trailer, 21ʼ, $14,800. 335-6574 1988 DODGE camper van, immaculate, 4-burner stove w/oven, toilet, microwave, roof fan, new tires/tran, low mileage, lots of storage, sleeps 4, $10,000 firm. 668-2866 2001 DODGE Pleasureway camper van, 5.9L gas engine, low mileage, stove, fridge, microwave, toaster oven, shower, toilet, a/c, $26,000. 668-2866 2000 9ʼ Okanagan truck camper, bathroom with shower, furnace, fridge, stove, queen bed, good working cond, $7,800 obo. 335-7436 2006 FORD F350 Super Duty crew cab 4x4 with Diplomat Camper. Loaded. 6.0L direct injection turbo diesel, 248,000km, auto, locking hubs, exc. cond, truck and camper: $29,500. 633-5470
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Pet Report
Pet of the Week!
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Hours of operation for tHe sHelter: Tues - Fri: 12:00pm-7:00pm • Sat 10:00am-6:00pm CloSed Sundays & Mondays
633-6019
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Hello, I’m Sappy. I’m a shy young guy. I would be better suited in a quiet home, with older children. I do need patience and I will warm up to you on my own time. Once I’m comfortable in my environment I am a totally different cat! So come on down and meet me today!
Help control the pet overpopulation problem
2014
have your pets spayed or neutered. For inFormation call
Willie
633-6019
Moss
633-6019 126 Tlingit Street
www.humanesocietyyukon.ca
Surplus Sale Yukon College is holding a sale of surplus assets on March 29th at 9:00am to 3:00pm PST in the lower Automotive Shop at Ayamdigut Campus, Whitehorse – there will be directional signage. InCluded In The SAle WIll be: • various automotive equipment including a tire changer, alignment hoist/air compressor/and wheel alignment machine (in working condition) • several electrical training panels • 3 – 4 post automotive hoists (in working condition) • pallets/lots of automotive engines and components such as drivetrain, pumps, brake parts, rads, carbs, etc. • a large metal storage rack • several Miller welders (in working condition) • All items are offered for sale in as is, where is condition, with no stated or implied warranty. Items are only available for review and bidding on March 29th beginning at 9:00am and all bids must be submitted at that location, by 3:00 pm PST.
Successful bidders will be notified on March 31st and must remove their items by April 2 at 5:00pm.
Cece LOST/FOUND LOST
• Porter creek area, 5-6 month old cat, male, black answers to Salem. if found contact morgan @ 334-0126. (04/03/14)
FOUND
• 8th and Jarvis street, medium, brown and white chest, husky wearing a leather studded collar no tags. contact Joanne @3933573 (15/03/14)
Inventory
Atv’s:
‘09 Yamaha Big Bear 250 ......................................................$3,499 ‘09 Yamaha Wolverine 450 ...................................................$4,999
snowmobiles:
‘07 Yamaha Apex Gt 121" ........................................ $5,999 $4,999 ‘08 Yamaha Phazer Mtx 144" .................................. $6,499 $5,499 ‘09 Yamaha Nytro Rtx Se 121" ............................... $7,999 $6,999 ‘12 Yamaha Nytro Xtx 144" Speed Racer .............. $9,999 $8,999 ‘12 Yamaha Venture TF ........................................................ $9,799
motoRCYCles: ‘00 Yamaha 650 Vstar ............................................... $3,499 $2,999 ‘08 Yamaha Wr450 Offroad ..................................... $4,499 $3,999 ‘08 Honda Shadow 750..........................................................$4,999 ‘08 Yamaha R6 Canadian Edition .........................................$7,999 ‘12 Yamaha Bw50 Scooter ................................................... $2,499 ‘13 Kawasaki Ninja 300 .........................................................$3,999
YUKON
YAMAHA
(867) 668-2101 or 1-800-661-0430
1 KM south of Robert Service Way, Alaska Highway, Whitehorse, Y.T.
• Hamilton Blvd near Falcon drive, medium dog, long black curly hair, not wearing a collar. contact Kristen @ 3348622 (17/03/14) • Black street and 7th ave, small dog, black and white with a curly tail, female, no collar, contact alrs @ 604-347-7115 (25/03/14) • Burns rd, black with white spot on chest and white on the one front paw, wearing a pink relective collar, and on one of her ears the tip is missing, and she is husky X, contact Kelly @ 335-6028.(27/03/14)
RUNNING AT LARGE... if you have lost a pet, remember to check with city Bylaw: 668-8382
AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION
IN FOSTER HOMES DOGS
Gently Used
Pippa
• 6 months old, female, Husky / labX, blonde ( Winnie) • 7 weeks old, female, corgi X, black and brown (Pippa) • 4 yr old, neutered male, husky, black and white (rikki)
• 2 yr old, neutered male, maltese, white (Zeus)
cATS
• 2 yr old, DSH, brown spayed female (minou)
AT THE SHELTER DOGS
• 3 yr old, neutered male, GSD/rottie, black and brown (trouble) • 7 yr old, spayed female, beagle/houndX, brown and black (tootsie) • 3yr old, neutered male, akita, grey and white (a.J.) • 4 yr old, spayed female, chihuahua, brown (Jilly)
• 4 yr old, neutered male, chihuahua, cream (Willie)
cATS
• 2 yr old, DSH, white and black, neutered male (tom) • 3 yr old, DSH, white and black neutered male (Jax) • 2yr old, DSH, grey and white, neutered male (Sappy)
SPEcIAL • Homes needed for retired sled dogs. they would make excellent pets. Please contact 668-3647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com if your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.
Pets will be posted on the Pet report for two weeks. Please let us know after that time if you need them re-posted.
You can also check out our award winning website at:
www.Humanesocietyyukon.ca
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TRAILER, HAULMARK cargo, 16ʼx6ʼ, single axle, rear barn door, side door, clean, $4,000 obo. 660-5101
MOUNTAIN VIEW Golf Club AGM April 3, 7:30pm, Mt. Mac Rec Centre (Gray Room) ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away” Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail sidkatours@ atlin.net www.glacierviewcabins.ca
MID-90S FLAT deck 16ʼL trailer, double axle, heavy duty built, brakes on all axles, detachable walls, $2,800 obo. 536-2658 ATCO TRAILER on skids, 30ʼ, single suite, in Watson Lake, $6,500. 536-2658
HOSPICE WORKSHOP "LIVING with Loss" Thurs Feb 27, 6:30-8:30pm for anyone living with personal loss or supporting others who are grieving. Register: 667-7429, administrator@hospiceyukon.net
ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com
Coming Events EVEREST NIGHT, APRIL 10, 6:00pm, United Church, tickets at Well-Read Books, slide presenters include Sally Wright, support member of Canadian team Tibet side ascent of Mt. Everest. www.hands-of-hope.ca
HABITAT FOR Humanity Yukon will be holding its AGM March 29, 2014, at the Whitehorse Public Library at 1:00 p.m. Everyone welcome! CRESTVIEW CROSS-COUNTRY ski group meets Sundays at 12:00 noon at 222 Squanga Ave to ski Pine Forest Loop, 2-3 hours, free
HORSES!
Frank and Frances Taylor are very pleased to announce the engagement of
Have you always wanted to ride? Find a complete list of all the great horse activities in Yukon! www.HorsinAroundYukon.com
Natalie Taylor to Thomas Riexinger
READING & Talk with Yukon fiction writer Dan Dowhal, Mon Mar 31 at 7:00pm, Dawson City Library. For info call 993-5571
on December 12,2013.
We love you!
CELEBRATE! Births! Birthdays! Weddings! Graduations! Anniversaries!
THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. A group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info and register call Cathy 633-7337 or Joanne 668-7713
BLUEGRASS CAMP, June 9-13, Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Camp at Sundog Retreat. Don't miss out, registration now open. Stellar lineup of instructors. Details at www.yukonbluegrass.com or email camp@yukonbluegrass.com FIREWEED COMMUNITY Market Society AGM Monday March 31 7:00pm, Whitehorse Library meeting room. All members welcome. Agenda items include market reports, NEW Saturday Outdoor Market, financial summary and 2014 budget POTLUCK FOOD Co-op AGM, with renowned food journalist Jon Steinman presenting "Deconstructing Dinner", March 29, 6:00pm, Old Fire Hall. Soup and refreshments. Everyone welcome! PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, April 7th, 5:15 pm at the Guild Hall. More information 633-4829. Everyone Welcome. Come show your support. SPRING JOB & Volunteer Fair, Wednesday April 23, 10:00am - 5:00pm, Yukon Convention Centre, where employers, jobseekers, volunteers and NGOs connect. www.yuwin.ca HABITAT FOR Humanity Yukon will be holding its AGM March 29, 2014, at the Whitehorse Public Library at 1:00pm, everyone welcome THE WHITEHORSE Oldtimer Hockey League Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 24 at 7:00pm, Tetra Tech EBA, 61 Wasson Place
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F.H. COLLINS School Council regular meeting @ 6:30pm, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, Fine Dining Room at the school. Everyone welcome YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents Understanding how ecosystems work: Comparing Serengeti with Yukon with Tony Sinclair, Sunday, March 30, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse and Monday, March 31, 7:30pm, St. Elias Convention Centre, Haines Junction. Free MARTEN/BEAVER HANDLING workshop, 2-Mile Hall, Watson Lake, Saturday, March 22nd, 10:00am, hosted by the Yukon Trappers Association. Pay by donation. 667 7091 LOVE OUR library? Want to support it? Friends of the Whitehorse Library Annual General Meeting Tuesday, April 1st 3:30 p.m. in the library meeting room. Info 633-6579
Friday, March 28, 2014 BRAEBURN LAKE Camp annual spaghetti benefit supper Friday, April 4, 5:00pm-7:00pm, CYO Hall, Steele & 4th. $10 adults, $8 seniors and children under 12 THE WHITEHORSE Children's Wish Foundation is looking for volunteers for this year's walk being held in September. Please email whitehorsewishmakers@gmail.com if interested in volunteering WHITEHORSE PHOTOGRAPHY Club presents a photography print display "Through our Lenses" at Yukon Art Centre April 4-26. Welcoming reception 4-6PM April 4. All welcome. www.whitehorsephotoclub.ca FAMILY END of Winter Celebration, March 29th, 3:00pm-9:30pm, Tagish Community Hall. Outdoor games for all ages, delicious spaghetti dinner ($8 per adult, $4 per child), and live music WANT TO grow a garden? DUGS 2014 community garden bed signup Saturday, April 5 Noon to 2:00pm at Whitehorse Food Bank 306 Alexander. For info call Randy 633-4379 TIA YUKON Annual General Meeting. Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 4:00pm to 6:00pm, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. Visit tiayukon.com for more details THE CHURCH of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Historic Worldwide Sisterhood Broadcast, Saturday, March 29, 2014, 5:00pm Yukon Time, LDS Chapel, 108 Wickstrom Rd, all women invited, 8 yrs to 88 yrs NORTHERN SAFETY Network Yukon (NSNY) announces the date of their AGM on April 24th 2014 at NSNY location, 478 Range Road from 12:00 to 1:00. All are welcome ELIJAH SMITH School Council regular council meeting is on April 1, 2014, 6:30pm, School Library. Everyone is welcome JACK HULLAND School Council regular council meeting, April 2, 2014, at 7:00pm, School Library. Everyone is welcome HOSPICE WALKING Group. Tuesdays 6-7:30pm May 6-June 10. Walk the Millennium trail as you receive and give healthy grief support. To register: 667-7429 or administrator@hospiceyukon.net WHITEHORSE SEARCH & Rescue AGM April 23 at 6:00 pm @ 60 Norseman Road. If interested in joining application forms will be available. For more information call 456-4981 RUN FOR Mom Learn to walk/run clinics begin Tuesday Apr 1, 6:00pm, Shipyards Park, Frank Slims building. Pre-register at Sport Yukon or on first night. Info: Don at 333-9202 SPRING JOB & Volunteer Fair, Wed April 23, 10:00am-5:00pm, Yukon Convention Centre. Everything from summer jobs to lifetime opportunities! www.yuwin.ca/jobs APRIL 4 from 1:00 - 4:00pm. Free Family Art Class: Kids Kreate Handmade Paper at the Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery. For more info call 667-8460
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Bernie’s Race-Trac Gas Bigway Foods
DOWNTOWN: Canadian Tire Cashplan The Deli Edgewater Hotel Extra Foods Fourth Avenue Petro Gold Rush Inn
PORTER CREEK
Coyote Video Goody’s Gas Green Garden Restaurant Heather’s Haven super A Porter Creek Trails north Home Hardware Klondike Inn Mac’s Fireweed Books Ricky’s Restaurant Riverside Grocery Riverview Hotel shoppers on Main shoppers Qwanlin Mall
RIVERDALE: 38 Famous Video super A Riverdale Tempo Gas Bar
superstore superstore Gas Bar Tags well-Read Books westmark whitehorse Yukon Inn Yukon news Yukon Tire
FROSTBITE MUSIC Society AGM, April 29, 7:00pm, Frostbite House, all welcome. Email hzimmering@gmail.com for more info, or 336-0551 PORTER CREEK Community Association Annual General Meeting (AGM) Tuesday, May 20th at 7:00 p.m., Guild Hall, Porter Creek. All Welcome. Come show and your support. Info 633-4829 AGM FOR Climb Yukon at FH Collins on the gymnasium stage April 16, 6:00pm-7:00pm. Use the front door to get access to the climbing wall JAZZ IN the Hall featuring The Paul Stephens Ensemble. Thurs, April 3, 7:00 pm cabaret. Old Fire Hall. $5 at the door YUKON PARTY Lake Laberge AGM and Election of delegates Tuesday April 15 at 7:00pm at the Hootalinqua Firehall. For more info call 334-9726 SPAGHETTI SUPPER for Braeburn Summer Camp on Friday April 4, 5:00-7:00pm, CYO Hall, 4th & Steele. For more info 667-2989 YUKON FISH & Game Association will be holding a Family Fishing Day at Lake Lebarge Sunday 6th April, Noon-3:00pm, BBQ, cake and prizes, everybody is welcome SOCIAL JUSTICE Committee at Sacred Heart Cathedral, 4th and Steele,will host Lenten Ecumenical Social Justice Way of the Cross Friday, April 11 at 7:30. All are welcome. 633-6579 ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Association, Annual General Meeting, Tuesday May 13, at 7:00pm, Sport Yukon boardroom, all members welcome. Info: www.activetwa.org TRAIL CONCERNS? Join Active Trails Whitehorse Association meeting: Tuesday April 8, 7:00pm to 9:00pm, Sport Yukon boardroom. Info: www.activetwa.org
Services Bookkeeper Taking new clients 393-3201 BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta. Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc. Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050
Now 2 locations: Porter Creek & Kulan. Onsite & offsite steel containers available for rent or sale.
Phone 633-2594 Fax 633-3915
The Yukon News is available at these wonderful stores in Whitehorse: Airport Chalet Airport snacks & Gifts
YUKON PARTY, Whitehorse Centre meeting 7:00pm, April 17, Whitehorse Public Library. More information: Chris 668-2853
LOW COST MINI STORAGE
WHERE DO I GET THE NEWS? HILLCREST
BONES, BOTTLES and birch bark baskets. Long Ago Yukon artifact identification day Whitehorse Library meeting room Saturday, April 12, 2:00pm to 4:00pm. For information 633-6579
AND …
Kopper King Hi-Country RV Park McCrae Petro Takhini Gas Yukon College Bookstore
“YOUR COMMUNITY CONNECTION” WEDNESDAY * FRIDAY
OFFICE LOCATED BESIDE KLONDIKE WELDING, 15 MacDONALD RD., PORTER CREEK, info@lowcostministorage.ca
THE YuKon nEws Is Also AVAIlABlE AT no CHARGE In All YuKon CoMMunITIEs AnD ATlIn, B.C.
LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632
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SHARPENING SERVICES. For all your sharpening needs - quality sharpening, fair price & good service. At corner of 6th & Strickland. 667-2988
Commercial & Residential
BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755
HOUSECLEANING, Spring Cleaning, Detailing! Safe, reliable, bondable RCMP check available on request For into call 334-7405 THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY • construction • renovation • finishing • cabinets • tiling • flooring • repairs • specialty woodwork • custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865 ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a competitive quote! 867-332-7879 IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” •Post hole augering •Light landscaping •Preps & Backfills Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369 NORTHRIDGE BOBCAT SERVICES • Snow Plowing • Site Prep & Backfills • Driveways • Post Hole Augering • Light Land Clearing • General Bobcat Work Fast, Friendly Service 867-335-1106 CITYLIGHT RENOS Flooring, tiling, custom closets Painting & trim, kitchens & bathrooms Fences & gates Landscaping & gardening Quality work at reasonable rates Free estimates Sean 867-332-1659 citylightrenos@gmail.com MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Windows Framing, Board, Drywall, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com - INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414 FINISHING CARPENTRY & RENOVATIONS For Clean, Meticulous & Tasteful Quality Work INTERIOR Design & organization of walk-in closets, laundry & storage room, garage Kitchen & Bathrooms, Flooring, Wood & Laminate, Stairs. EXTERIOR Decks, Fences, Insulation, Siding, Storage Shed DIDIER MOGGIA 633-2156 or cell 334-2156
Snow Removal (867) 336-3570
Parking Lots, Sidewalks, Rooftops and Sanding
DRUG PROBLEM?
PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368
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Narcotics
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Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. <BYTE> Fridays 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm 4071 - 4th Ave. <Many Rivers>
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS
in Whitehorse
MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM,NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:00 pm Juste Pour Aujourd’hui 4141B - 4th Avenue. 8:00 pm Ugly Duckling Group (CM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. WEDNESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St.. 8:00 pm Porter Crk Step Meeting (CM) Our Lady of Victory, 1607 Birch St. 8:00 pm No Puffin (CM,NS) Big Book Study Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. THURSDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Grapevine Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 6:00 pm Young People’s Meeting BYTE Office, 2-407 Ogilvie Street 7:30 pm Polar Group (OM) Seventh Day Adventist Church 1609 Birch Street (Porter Creek) FRIDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Big Book Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 1:30 pm #4 Hospital Rd. (Resource Room) 8:00 pm Whitehorse Group (CM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. SATURDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 2:30 pm Women’s Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital (room across from Emergency) 7:00 pm Hospital Boardroom (OM, NS) SUNDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 7:00 pm Marble Group Hospital Boardroom (OM, NS)
NS - No Smoking OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking
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INVITATION TO TENDER #2014-008 LNG Facility – Civil Construction
Yukon Energy is inviting firm price quotations from qualified contractors for the site preparation and civil construction at Yukon Energy’s new LNG generating station located in Whitehorse. In general, the work shall include site grading, granular fills, road construction, perimeter fencing, construction of a containment pit, service trenches, water settlement pond and piling and structural foundations for equipment pads. This work is scheduled for the 2014 construction season, with a planned start in June and a completion date of October 17, 2014.
Yukon Communities & Atlin, B.C.
Sealed tenders, clearly marked “ITT# 2014-008 LNG Facility-Civil Construction” will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m. Yukon time, April 25, 2014, at Yukon Energy’s corporate offices, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Box 5920, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Y1A 6S7 or via e-mail.
Beaver Creek Y.T.
To obtain a tender package contact Matthew Sills at 867-393-5335 or matthew.sills@yec.yk.ca.
Friday - 1:30 p.m. Health Centre
Carcross Y.T. Wednesday - 7:30 p.m. Library Friday - 1:30 p.m. Health Centre Carmacks Y.T.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS
Advertising
Friday - 1:30 p.m. Health Centre
Dawson City Y.T.
Thursday - 8:00 p.m. New Beginners Group Richard Martin Chapel Friday - 1:30 p.m. Health Centre Saturday 7:00 p.m. Community Support Centre 1233 2nd Ave.
Destruction Bay Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m. Health Centre
Faro Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m. Health Centre Haines Junction Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m. Health Centre
Mayo Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m. Health Centre Old Crow Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m. Health Centre
Pelly Crossing Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m. Health Centre
Ross River Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m. Health Centre
Tagish Y.T. Monday 7:30pm Lightwalkers Group Bishop’s Cabin, end of road along California Beach Telegraph Creek B.C. Tuesday - 8:00 p.m. Soaring Eagles Sewing Centre
Teslin Y.T. Wednesday - 7:00pm Wellness Centre #4 McLeary Friday - 1:30p.m. Health Centre Watson Lake Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m. Health Centre
request for Proposals
Project Evaluator
Council of Yukon First Nations – Cancer Care Project April 7, 2014 to January 31 2017
Closing Date: April 4, 2014– 4:00 pm Location: Whitehorse CAnCEr CArE initiAtivE BACkgrounD: The Council of Yukon First Nations is set to begin a multi-year cancer care initiative for First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) people. With critical partnerships and First Nation direction, the cancer journey will be addressed in an effort to make this process more seamless for FNIM people in the Yukon Territory and help reduce the cancer burden for these communities improving the experience for patients.
FoCus oF EvALuAtion: The focus of this contract will be to evaluate the overall collective impact/value of the Yukon Cancer Care Project that will be ongoing from March 2014 to January 2017. Deliverables include: • Prepare an evaluation plan as required by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer guidelines • Evaluate project as per evaluation plan • Provide evaluation reports on the initiative as required
rEquirEmEnts: • Knowledge of Yukon First Nations communities and services • Knowledge of Yukon First Nations and rural community issues, process and priorities • Travel to evaluation working group meetings across Canada
Information collected during this contract will adhere to Ownership Control Access and Possession principles remain property of Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) and will require permission to be used otherwise.
ProPosAL suBmission: The proposal shall include the following to be considered: • Current resume • Summary of your related work or initiatives you have conducted or participated in • Costing and timeline for your hourly work only
A Schedule of Duties will be made available to interested applicants. Please submit your proposal no later than April 4, 2014 4:00 pm to: Name: Lori Duncan Address: Council of Yukon First Nations, 2166-2nd Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 4P1 Phone: (867) 393-9230 Fax: (867) 668-6577 E-mail: lori.duncan@cyfn.net
62 SNOW CLEARING/REMOVAL Sidewalks, Driveways, Parking lots, Compounds Private and Commercial Properties Fast and reliable service Aurora Toolcat Services 867-334-8447 WHITE TORNADO CLEANING SERVICES Hiring seasonal, summer, part-time, casual employees. Need to be bondable, hard-working, fast & efficient Attention to detailing (fine gyprock dust) Valid driverʼs licence Vehicle preferred but not essential Drop off resume at Employment Central No phone calls, please
Yukon News S.V.P. CARPENTRY Journey Woman Carpenter Interior/Exterior Finishing/Framing Small & Medium Jobs “Make it work and look good.” Call Susana (867) 335-5957 susanavalerap@live.com www.svpcarpentry.com KLASSIC HANDYMAN SERVICES “HOME RENOVATION SPECIALIST” “SPECIALIZING IN BATHROOMS” Start to Finish • FLOORING • TILE • CARPENTRY • PAINTING • FENCING • DECKS “ONE CALL DOES IT ALL!! DON: 334-2699 don.brook@hotmail.com
Licensed and Professional Automotive Repairs 20-year Journeyman Mechanic Monday - Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm Call Brian Berg 867-633-6597 Journeyman Plumber Available for residential and commercial repair, service and installation Prompt, professional, and guaranteed workmanship $50/hour until May 1st Call 335-6982 ELEMENTAL FARM Eat organic, fresh & local this summer! 15-week veggie box program (CSA) Free-range chickens & turkeys Must pre-order by April 1st Email elementalfarm@riseup.net for more information BALANCED BOOKKEEPING Full range of services from data entry to year end financials and everything in between including payroll, GST, and remittances. 20+ years experience. Call today, 332-8489 or 633-8489
INVITATION TO TENDER
INVITATION TO TENDER
2014-001350 Supply of Fuel
2014-001351 Supply of Propane
The City of Whitehorse (the “City”) is inviting tenders in writing from bona fide proponents for the supply of Fuel. Interested bidders must submit tenders in writing enclosed in a sealed envelope clearly indicating the bidders name and address and referencing “Tender for the Supply of Fuel”; 2014-001350. All Tender submissions must be addressed to the City of Whitehorse, Manager Financial Services, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 and received before 3:00:00 PM Local Time, Thursday, April 10, 2014. Invitation to Tender documents with complete specifications may be obtained by Proponents who are or will be authorized to conduct business in the City of Whitehorse, from the Office of the Manager of Finance at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 on or after 12:00:00 PM local time Thursday, March 27, 2014. Tender submissions will be"EVALUATED IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE.” Tenders by facsimile WILL NOT be accepted and / or considered. All inquiries regarding this tender may be directed to the City’s Manager of Operations at 867-668-8302 between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm Monday to Friday.
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The City of Whitehorse (the “City”) is inviting tenders in writing from bona fide proponents for the supply of Propane. Interested bidders must submit tenders in writing enclosed in a sealed envelope clearly indicating the bidders name and address and referencing “Tender for the Supply of Propane”; 2014-001351. All Tender submissions must be addressed to the City of Whitehorse, Manager Financial Services, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 and received before 3:00:00 PM Local Time, Thursday, April 10, 2014. Invitation to Tender documents with complete specifications may be obtained by Proponents who are or will be authorized to conduct business in the City of Whitehorse, from the Office of the Manager of Finance at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 on or after 12:00:00 PM local time Thursday, March 27, 2014. Tender submissions will be"EVALUATED IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE.” Tenders by facsimile WILL NOT be accepted and / or considered.
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Sports Equipment BOWFLEX BLAZE, 1.5 yrs old, barely used, good cond, $500 obo. 335-6937 FLOAT TUBE/BELLY boat, purchased in 2012 used once, paid $500, asking $350. 668-2866 SALSA MUKLUK, green, size large, like new, just not getting used. $1,200. 668-4634 DRY SUIT, NRS extreme relief, mens xxl, all new gaskets, good condition. Get ready for paddle season! $495 obo. 633-4322
HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Dev & Louise Hurlburt Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix Small square & round bales Discounts for field pick up or delivery Straw bales also for sale 335-5192 • 668-7218 HAY FOR SALE Square bales kept under a shelter Great quality, $12/bale. 633-4496 Hay & Straw For Sale Excellent quality hay Alfalfa mix 60-65lb $14.50 Timothy/grass mix 60-65 lb $14.50 Brome hay 50-55 lbs $12 Straw bales $7 Nielsen Farms Maureen 333-0615 or yukonfarm@gmail.com HORSE FENCING panels 4ʼx14ʼ, new, 16 pieces, $3,000. 334-3216 HORSE TRAILER, good cond, $800 obo, must sell. 334-3216 FORD 5000 farm tractor, 4 high speeds/4 low speeds, front end loader, Pto, 3-point hitch, 4-cyl diesel, $4,500 obo. 633-6502 WANTED: TRACTOR with Loader 25-60hp. 335-2034
Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903 KELTY KANGAROO carrier for infants up to 28 lbs, like new. $40. 334-5323
Childcare
2011 MARIN Alchatraz mountain bike, single speed, exc cond, used only a few times, in storage for last 2 summers, $700. 333-0143
REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS Mobile Food Vendors on Downtown Public Land, 2014 Season The City of Whitehorse is inviting applications from mobile food vendors for the 2014 summer season. A list of approved vendor sites has been developed by the City and will be awarded through a lottery process. Application forms must be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “Request for Applications Mobile Food Vendor Stalls, Whitehorse, Yukon” and addressed to: Manager, Financial Services City of Whitehorse 2121 Second Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1C2 Application closing time and date is before 2:00 p.m. Local Time (P.S.T.) on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. The complete Application Package, including the Application Form can be picked up starting 8:30 a.m. Friday, April 4th, 2014 from the office of the Manager of Financial Services, City Hall, Whitehorse. Applications received after this time will not be considered regardless of the reason for being late, and will be returned to the applicant unopened.
All inquiries regarding this tender may be directed to the City’s Manager of Operations at 867-668-8302 between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm Monday to Friday.
Get details at whitehorse.ca/ foodvendors. Inquiries may be directed to Ben Campbell, Planner, at 867-668-8338 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday or by email at ben. campbell@whitehorse.ca.
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ROSIEʼS DAY HOME Opening May 1, 2014 Day/Night/Weekend Spots available Call 668-3448
Livestock QUALITY YUKON MEAT Dev & Louise Hurlburt Grain-finished Hereford beef Domestic wild boar Order now for guaranteed delivery Payment plan available Samples on request 668-7218 335-5192
MARANATHA DAYCARE has openings for children ages infant to 12 years Long-term staff qualified and experienced Fun & educational environment Call Gurnam 668-7937
LAND LOTTERY and TENDER Carmacks
Energy, Mines and Resources, Land Management Branch is holding a lottery and tender offering for (3) three urban residential lots and (2) two industrial lots in Carmacks. Information packages and application forms are available from: Land Management Branch 3rd Floor, Room 320 Elijah Smith Building 300 Main Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Or online at: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/lands/upcoming_lotteries_tender.html Or at the EMR office in Carmacks. Deadline: Lottery applications and tenders must be received before 4:30 p.m., April 14, 2014. Lottery Draws: The lottery and tender opening will take place in Carmacks at 1:00 p.m., April 17, 2014 at the Carmacks Village Council Chambers. Applicants and the general public are welcome to attend the draw. All successful applicants will be notified the next day. For more information contact the Land Management Branch at (867) 667-5215 or Toll-free 1-800-661-0408 local 5215 or visit online at: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/lands
LARGE OFFICE desk and matching credenza, also two large metal filing cabinets. 633-6553 CHOCOLATE BROWN leather couch, 7ʼ long, & love seat, 5ʼ long, good cond, $1,000. 334-5323 HEAVY DUTY adjustable steel bed frame with centre support, rug sliders, 7-leg support system, double adjusts to King size, $150. 633-2981 DARK BROWN bar height kitchen table, 42” square, good cond, $100. 334-5323 4-DRAWER FILING cabinet, used, $75 obo. Contemporary desk, like new, $75. 633-2096 evenings WANTED: ALMOST new queen size bed set wanted. Prefer firm mattress. Will pay cash and pick up if necessary. 668-5701 BLACK FUTON sofa in excellent condition, $100, leather sofa with or without matching love seat, Michelle @334-3851
Personals ARE YOU MÉTIS? Are you registered? Would you like to be involved? There is a Yukon Metis Nation that needs your support Contact 668-6845 CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community? Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime. Info: RCMP 867-667-5555
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DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office
Garage Sales GALA GARAGE Sale, Whitehorse Elementary School Gym, April 12, 10:00. Fundraiser for Little Footprints Big Steps in Haiti. Donate/Help? 456-4434 or 335-0333
PUbLIc TENDER STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT FOR DENTAL MATERIALS & SUPPLIES FOR GOVERNMENT OF YUKON 2014-2015 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 22, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at (867) 393-6387. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
95 FIREWEED Drive, Mary Lake, March 29, 10:00am-2:00pm, welder, outdoor gear, knives, misc tools 8 BELL Crescent, Riverdale, March 29 & 30, 10:00am-4:00pm, bedroom/dining room suites, king size mattress/boxspring, house plants, much more. 667-7107 1103 SPRUCE St, P/C, Sunday, March 30, 10:00am-1:00pm, huge selection incl hh items, kitchen, clothing, cook books, CDs, DVDs
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TO ESTABLISH STANDING OFFER AGREEMENTS: ARCHITECTURAL, TECHNICAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES RELATED TO BUILDING DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION AND REPAIR Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 24, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Haider Rajab at (867) 456-6153. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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PubLIc TENDER TAXIWAYS ALPHA AND FOXTROT FILLET WIDENING ERIK NIELSEN WHITEHORSE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 17, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Kyle Jansson at (867) 633-7922. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project. Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Highways and Public Works
REquEST FOR PROPOSAL
REquEST FOR PROPOSAL
ATTENDANT SERVICES FOR THE CARCROSS SOLID WASTE FACILITY
ATTENDANT SERVICES FOR THE TAGISH SOLID WASTE FACILITY
Project Description: To provide attendant services at the Carcross Solid Waste Disposal Facility. This includes having an attendant on site during all hours of operation, promoting waste diversion, and other activities as described herein. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 8, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Monti Patterson at (867) 6675269. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Project Description: To provide attendant services at the Tagish Solid Waste Disposal Facility. This includes having an attendant on site during all hours of operation, promoting waste diversion, and other activities as described herein. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 8, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Monti Patterson at (867) 6675269. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Community Services
Community Services
PuBLIC TENDER
REqUEST FOR PROPOSAL ENGINEERING CONSULTING SERVICES FOR TOWN OF WATSON LAKE WATER SYSTEMS UPGRADE Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 22, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Mike O’Connor at (867) 6673553. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
DAWSON AIRPORT CANADA BORDER SERVICES AGENCY SITE WORK AND AIR TERMINAL RENOVATIONS Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 3, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Mike Otto at (867) 667-3004. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project. Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Community Services
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PUbLIC TENDER HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION KM 26.1 - 28.8 ATLIN ROAD #7 2014/15 Project Description: The project consists of reconstruction of approximately 2.7 kilometres of the Atlin Road from km 26.1 to km 28.8. The work consists of but is not limited to: traffic control, environmental compliance, clearing, grubbing, construction of subgrade, removal and disposal of existing culverts, supply and installation of new culverts, and construction of granular base course. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 17, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Kirn Dhillon, P.Eng. at (867) 633-7945. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project. Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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